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Written Question
Contact Orders
Wednesday 10th July 2019

Asked by: Chris Leslie (The Independent Group for Change - Nottingham East)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what records his Department holds on the number of child contact services contracts entered into by local authorities in England and Wales on an annual basis; and if he will make a statement.

Answered by Nadhim Zahawi

Regarding the number of child contact services contracts entered into by local authorities in England and Wales, this information is not held centrally.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 17 Jul 2017
Schools Update

"Thank you, Mr Speaker. I want to press the Secretary of State a little on the point that the right hon. Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon)—the new Chair of the Select Committee on Education—and some of my hon. Friends have mentioned: where in the Department is the money coming from? …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 12 Jul 2017
Schools: Nottingham

"I am grateful that my hon. Friend has secured this debate. She will know my constituent, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who last year won the BBC young musician of the year contest, as he went to Trinity School, a secondary school in her constituency. He is a great example of the sort …..."
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Written Question
Further Education: Business
Wednesday 25th January 2017

Asked by: Chris Leslie (The Independent Group for Change - Nottingham East)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what investigations (a) her Department and (b) the Further Education Commissioner has undertaken into the educational impact and value for money of the Gazelle Colleges Group, and if she will make a statement.

Answered by Robert Halfon

The Gazelle College Group is an independent organisation, not funded by Government. Decisions taken by Colleges to join or fund independent sector bodies are for their Corporations as charitable trustees, who should ensure they receive value for money for any expenditure incurred.

Written Question
Schools: Hospitals
Monday 17th October 2016

Asked by: Chris Leslie (The Independent Group for Change - Nottingham East)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how existing schools embedded in hospitals for pupils with medical needs will be supported financially if planned changes to the commissioning of alternative provision proceed; and if she will make a statement.

Answered by Edward Timpson

We will announce more detail on the funding for alternative provision under the new commissioning arrangements in due course. We are mindful of the diverse range of provision which comes under the banner of alternative provision, and the particular logistical and geographical issues related to hospital schools.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 04 Jul 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"If the Secretary of State really does want to help teachers with the workload pressures that they are under, she has to do much more to tackle the serious shortage of teacher colleagues in schools and the duplicative paperwork that teachers are coping with, and not rely so much on …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 03 May 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"But if we are to get all these visitors to Leicester, Nottingham, Derby and across the east and the west midlands and we are to get the midlands engine moving, will the Secretary of State talk to his colleagues about infrastructure investment more generally, because we are certainly losing out …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 25 Apr 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"Perhaps the Secretary of State can explain a little more clearly and slowly, particularly to some of her colleagues on the Conservative Back Benches, who are gently asking her to think again about this point. Parental accountability is quite an important part of school life. In what circumstances does she …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Mar 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"How on earth are small and medium-sized businesses going to be competitive if, in 100 days’ time, they find that their access to those level playing field markets will be firmly thrown away and that that door will be shut in their face? What will the Secretary of State do …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 25 Jan 2016
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Minister will know that there are schools in my constituency and elsewhere that want to improve rapidly but are struggling with the challenge of recruitment. One academy principal told me last week that he has spent over £60,000 just on the advertising costs. Is not it time that the …..."
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