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Thursday 3rd April 2014

Asked by: David Morris (Conservative - Morecambe and Lunesdale)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will include cancer awareness education as part of the national curriculum in personal, social and health education.

Answered by Elizabeth Truss

Cancer awareness is important for all young people. However, I do not believe that there should be a statutory requirement for it to be taught in schools. The Government aims to reduce prescription throughout the education system, and trusts schools to provide what is best for their students. The Department for Education does not collect data on this topic.

Schools are free to teach cancer awareness when it is relevant to the national curriculum. For example, the science curriculum requires pupils to learn about the effects of drugs on their bodies, and the importance of physical activity and a healthy lifestyle is included in the requirements for physical education. In design and technology, schools may highlight the importance of nutrition and a healthy diet. Schools may include cancer awareness as part of personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education, using suitable resources from relevant organisations. The PSHE Association has produced a suggested programme of study as guidance for teachers, and continues to highlight other sources of expertise.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Mar 2014
School Funding

"Will my right hon. Friend confirm that had the funding criteria been in place a few years ago, the Labour county council would not be shutting down Skerton school in my constituency?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 24 Jan 2012
Self-Employment

"I agree with everything my hon. Friend has said. Back in the 1980s, the manpower allowances service scheme was brought in by Margaret Thatcher’s Government. That scheme took people who were on the unemployment register and gave them twice the amount of unemployment benefit, so that they could go self-employed. …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Dec 2011
Apprenticeships

"Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for calling me to speak in such an important debate.

Apprenticeships have been the bedrock of training in British Industry for generations, and anyone who cares about British Industry must, by extension, care about apprenticeships. I am very proud to say that I left school …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 12 May 2011
Business Support (Lancaster and Fleetwood)

"Does my hon. Friend agree that the new link road will create pockets of investment in my constituency and in his constituency next door?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 19 Jan 2011
Education Maintenance Allowance

"Today we are debating a scheme introduced by the previous Government that has done some good for poorer students but is also wasteful and inefficient. We need to work out how to maintain and support poorer students while cutting overall costs. Sadly, this is a typical tale of the previous …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 19 Jan 2011
Education Maintenance Allowance

"No, I am short of time.

Under our proposals, poorer students in my constituency of Morecambe and Lunesdale will be better off, while we will save the taxpayer money. I thank the Secretary of State, who sadly is not here, for the £250,000 he recently put towards Morecambe college.

EMA …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 24 Nov 2010
Schools White Paper

"I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his excellent White Paper. What measures does it contain to protect teachers from false allegations made by disruptive pupils?..."
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