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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 30 Jan 2019
School Funding: Gloucestershire

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered school funding in Gloucestershire.

I am delighted to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Davies. I welcome the Minister to his place, and I welcome my Gloucestershire colleagues; I am sure they will have things to say, but I know they will …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 30 Jan 2019
School Funding: Gloucestershire

"It is unfair. I will outline my own views on that; as someone who supported the f40 group for a long time, as did the hon. Gentleman and other hon. Members, I think we have a distribution problem as well as a problem of how much money is in the …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 30 Jan 2019
School Funding: Gloucestershire

"That is a very fair point and I concur, but of course those other pupils who might have gone to Belmont and so on are now in mainstream schools, which is causing additional pressures on schools across the board. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has estimated that there was something …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 30 Jan 2019
School Funding: Gloucestershire

"There is a need to raise this issue for all our colleagues, which is what I am trying to do. I agree; it is not a party political issue, but crosses the spectrum, and we must all work together to do something. I am sure the Minister will have something …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 30 Jan 2019
School Funding: Gloucestershire

"I agree; we know our county has areas of deprivation, which I will touch on. The new national funding formula suggests that about half of Gloucestershire’s 40 secondary schools will receive the minimum per pupil spend of £4,600 in 2019-20 and then £4,800 in 2020-21. We are not really catching …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 30 Jan 2019
School Funding: Gloucestershire

"I will comment on that. I disagree with the hon. Gentleman. Although Brexit has completely overwhelmed Parliament, I have been inundated with comments from headteachers, teachers, teaching unions, parents and even some pupils. Their message is that they face cuts. We can argue about how much those cuts are and …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 30 Jan 2019
School Funding: Gloucestershire

"I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman. There are cuts. He should go into schools in his constituency and see what is happening. I have now received hundreds of responses from people at the sharp end who believe, maybe wrongly, that there are cuts. We can argue about the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Jan 2019
Teacher Recruitment and Retention Strategy

"By definition, the most experienced teachers are the most expensive. One of the reasons for poor retention is that schools, particularly smaller primary schools, have to lay off those teachers because they cannot afford them within their budget. Will the Government look at how we can keep those teachers teaching, …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 21 Jan 2019
College Funding

"Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that one of the most valuable things that further education does is to allow people—whether they be native to this country or a migrant—to improve their language skills, including by learning a foreign language? That was always one of the ways in which FE …..."
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Written Question
Notice Boards: Fires
Thursday 17th January 2019

Asked by: David Drew (Labour (Co-op) - Stroud)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will conduct a comparative fire risk assessment of school notice boards which meet European BS EN 13501 (a) class B and (b) class E standard; and if he will publish the results of that assessment.

Answered by Nick Gibb

For all Department for Education delivered school buildings, the Department sets out the design and construction requirements in its specification documents including the fire safety requirements for notice boards. As part of the annual review of that specification, the department will be assessing the current approach to classification of notice boards.