Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 12 Sep 2016
Schools that work for Everyone
"If the Secretary of State is indeed going to search for evidence, will she try to find out why the OECD has consistently said that educational outcomes in England are far better than they are in Wales, where we have had 17 years of Labour government?..."David T C Davies - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 02 Feb 2016
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"22. Under current rules, steel companies pay the highest energy taxes in Europe. Those taxes are then used to subsidise wind farms, which are made from cheap imported steel. Does the Minister agree that our policy needs to change?..."David T C Davies - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Dec 2015
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"2. What steps he is taking to ensure that the Government receives value for money from its funding of the Met Office...."David T C Davies - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 15 Dec 2015
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"The BBC, no less, reported in 2012 that in 11 out of the previous 12 years predictions about increases in temperature had been wrong and that there had been a warm bias. Does the Secretary of State, as the shareholder, agree that he should be asking some tough questions at …..."David T C Davies - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 30th November 2015
Asked by:
David T C Davies (Conservative - Monmouth)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many state-funded schools require pupils to wear a burqa or jilbab as part of their uniform.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The governing body or academy trust of an individual school is responsible for setting their uniform policy. The Department does not collect information about individual schools’ uniform policies.
Our guidance to schools on school uniform is clear that schools must have full regard to their obligations under equalities law, and act reasonably and fairly in the interests of all their students.
We would expect all schools to act flexibly in response to reasonable requests to vary their uniform policy.
The Department's guidance on school uniform is available online: www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-uniform.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 30 Nov 2015
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"How many schools require pupils to wear a burqa or jilbab as part of their uniform?..."David T C Davies - View Speech
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Written Question
Thursday 26th February 2015
Asked by:
David T C Davies (Conservative - Monmouth)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons the salary sacrifice scheme available to teachers does not cover the purchase of cars.
Answered by David Laws
Academies, including free schools, university technical colleges and studio schools, have the freedom to set their own pay and conditions policies, and so are free to offer their teachers access to car purchase salary sacrifice schemes. Currently 15% of all primary schools and 62% of all secondary schools are academies.
In local authority maintained schools, changes to the statutory pay and conditions of teachers must first be referred to the independent School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB). Recent STRB referrals have focused on fundamental reforms to the overall pay and conditions framework for teachers. Following the STRB’s recommendations, these reforms have given schools much greater freedom to attract and retain the best teachers and to reward individuals in line with their contribution to improving their pupils’ achievements.
The demands on the STRB’s time and resources in the reform process mean that the Government has had to make hard decisions on the issues it refers to STRB. In light of the focus of the important referrals above, we have not prioritised revisions to the existing salary sacrifice arrangements. However, the Government will consider whether the issue should be included in future referrals to the STRB.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 06 Jan 2014
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"10. What assessment he has made of the findings of the recent PISA report as they relate to England; and if he will make a statement...."David T C Davies - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 06 Jan 2014
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"The PISA results also showed that things in Wales have not only stagnated, but gone backwards, and that educational standards in England are still far higher than they are in Wales, where the Welsh Assembly’s Labour Minister recently had to make a fulsome apology on the front page of the …..."David T C Davies - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Nov 2013
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"Given the priority that the Government are quite rightly putting on child protection, can the Minister tell me what steps have been taken since I wrote in April to establish the name of the school attended by Adil Rashid, who defended himself against a serious sexual offence on the grounds …..."David T C Davies - View Speech
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