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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 26 Oct 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"T3. Some 150,000 families with a disabled child will be affected by the cuts in child tax credit. What assessment has the Secretary of State undertaken of the effect of the cuts on the additional number of disabled children who will be plunged into poverty, and, in turn, the effect …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 26 Mar 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"4. If he will bring forward legislative proposals to ban the practice of firms being asked by large companies to make agreements to pay to become or remain approved suppliers...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 26 Mar 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"I have been campaigning for four years to end the blight of late payments to small businesses, including by ending controversial “pay to stay” contracts. The small business Bill is too little too late. Labour tabled amendments in Committee to end and outlaw the controversial “pay to stay” arrangements. Why …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 03 Mar 2015
Child Sexual Exploitation (Oxfordshire)

"May I press the Secretary of State on the need for an independent inquiry? If the cultural issues that led to complaints and concerns not being escalated have not been addressed, why should there not be an independent inquiry?..."
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Written Question
Teachers: Greater Manchester
Monday 22nd December 2014

Asked by: Debbie Abrahams (Labour - Oldham East and Saddleworth)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many chemistry teachers in each parliamentary constituency in Greater Manchester have a chemistry degree.

Answered by David Laws

The information requested is not available by parliamentary constituency.

Unlike the Department for Education’s response to written parliamentary question 218919, any count would have to rely on linking two samples of teachers for qualifications held and curriculum taught. Any estimate based on the small numbers of chemistry teachers employed in each parliamentary constituency would be unreliable.

Written Question
Teachers: Greater Manchester
Monday 22nd December 2014

Asked by: Debbie Abrahams (Labour - Oldham East and Saddleworth)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary school teachers in each parliamentary constituency in Greater Manchester have a science degree.

Answered by David Laws

The following table provides the headcount number and percentage of all regular teachers[1] in service in primary schools in each constituency in Greater Manchester with a degree in a science subject in November 2013. This is the latest information available.

Name of Constituency

Number of teachers

with science degree[2]

Number of teachers with a qualification recorded[3]

Percentage with a science

qualification

Confidence interval[4]

Percentage of teachers with qualification

recorded

Altrincham and Sale West

31

382

8.1

+/-

2.7

88.2

Ashton-under-Lyne

23

415

5.5

+/-

2.2

95.0

Blackley and Broughton

47

573

8.2

+/-

2.2

96.0

Bolton North East

36

416

8.7

+/-

2.7

98.8

Bolton South East

42

516

8.1

+/-

2.4

98.5

Bolton West

26

404

6.4

+/-

2.4

99.0

Bury North

30

355

8.5

+/-

2.9

88.1

Bury South

39

368

10.6

+/-

3.1

84.8

Cheadle

29

437

6.6

+/-

2.3

98.2

Denton and Reddish

18

368

4.9

+/-

2.2

94.6

Hazel Grove

21

316

6.6

+/-

2.7

98.4

Heywood and Middleton

48

485

9.9

+/-

2.7

98.0

Leigh

41

340

12.1

+/-

3.5

96.3

Makerfield

24

324

7.4

+/-

2.9

95.9

Manchester Central

33

610

5.4

+/-

1.8

96.5

Manchester, Gorton

38

494

7.7

+/-

2.3

98.0

Manchester, Withington

28

388

7.2

+/-

2.6

97.0

Oldham East and Saddleworth

33

473

7.0

+/-

2.3

89.6

Oldham West and Royton

36

505

7.1

+/-

2.2

87.5

Rochdale

45

498

9.0

+/-

2.5

95.0

Salford and Eccles

25

379

6.6

+/-

2.5

94.5

Stalybridge and Hyde

31

432

7.2

+/-

2.4

97.3

Stockport

31

378

8.2

+/-

2.8

97.2

Stretford and Urmston

35

385

9.1

+/-

2.9

80.2

Wigan

27

304

8.9

+/-

3.2

89.4

Worsley and Eccles South

42

422

10.0

+/-

2.9

89.0

Wythenshawe and Sale East

30

441

6.8

+/-

2.4

92.6

Total Greater Manchester

889

11,416

7.8

+/-

0.5

93.7

Total England

18,795

227,513

8.3

+/-

0.1

Note: Figures are as reported in School Workforce Census, they have not been scaled up.

Source: School Workforce Census

[1] Includes qualified and unqualified teachers.

[2] Includes teachers with a first or higher science degree but excluding those with a science PGCE where no record of a science degree exists and those with a BEd in sciences.

[3] Those recorded with a qualification in any subject (the total in the sample from which the rate is calculated).

[4] The range within which we can be 95% confident that the true value exists.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Dec 2014
Preparing Young People for Work

"I share the concerns of my hon. Friends about the status of the new company. Is it a private company? It is being set up with public money. Given the Public Accounts Committee’s report this morning, which suggests that public money given to private companies is often not spent well, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Dec 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"Today’s report by the Children’s Commissioner for England has highlighted the increasing gap between rich and poor families and its effect on children. It states that in spite of measures such as universal free school meals for infants, the Government are failing to meet their commitment under the UN convention …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 18 Nov 2014
Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill

"I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 18 Nov 2014
Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill

"This group of amendments is seeking to address the very significant issue of businesses paying their suppliers late. Recent data show that the late payment debt burden for UK businesses is more than £46 billion, with SMEs shouldering most of this. They are owed nearly £40 billion in late payments …..."
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