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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Bambos Charalambous Excerpts
Monday 14th May 2018

(5 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Anne Milton Portrait The Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills (Anne Milton)
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I congratulate the firm on my hon. Friend’s patch and am delighted it has apprenticeships. The National Apprenticeship Service is there to help at any time.

Bambos Charalambous Portrait Bambos Charalambous (Enfield, Southgate) (Lab)
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On Monday 7 May, one of my constituents was stabbed in a local park. Today, he would have been sitting his GCSEs, but instead he is in an intensive care unit in a London hospital having undergone life-saving surgery. Does the Secretary of State agree that my constituent, having been a victim of a serious knife crime, should not suffer now or in later life as a result of not being awarded GCSE grades, and will he put pressure on the exam boards to allow my constituent to be awarded the grades he was predicted to get?