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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 15 Oct 2014
National Minimum Wage

"Is not the most crucial point, as well as raising the minimum wage, the need to address and examine the issue of tax? This coalition Government have raised the minimum threshold and actually given people on the minimum wage more money in their pockets. Will he set out in detail …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 21 Jul 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"A school funding revolution is taking place in Northumberland as the fairer funding consultation will lead to an increase in April 2015 of up to 7.2%. That is also a revolution for our governors, who, under the previous Government, were often consulted but always ignored. Will the Minister take this …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 09 Jul 2014
Technical and Vocational Education

"On apprenticeship figures, would the hon. Gentleman be interested to know that, according to the House of Commons, apprenticeship starts are up by 62.8% in Hexham? Indeed, apprenticeships are up significantly in every single one of the 29 seats in the north-east of England,...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 09 Jul 2014
Technical and Vocational Education

"Like the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Steve Rotheram), I have hired and trained an apprentice, who I have retained for the past four years. She is outstanding and has been a great success.

To take the Minister back to what he said a moment ago about education funding on …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 25 Jun 2014
British Values: Teaching

"A democratic state surely has a duty and a vested interest in ensuring that its citizens are aware of their rights and responsibilities, and in that respect schools are the obvious place to start. They should be a place of learning and understanding, where naivety is met with guidance and …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 25 Jun 2014
British Values: Teaching

"It is rare that one gets barracked by one’s own side, but one has to get used to it.

What are British values? Sarcasm may be one value that we would particularly wish to identify. We are—are we not?—good at queuing, and we are bad at football. As everyone knows, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 16 Jun 2014
Oral Answers to Questions

"The move towards fairer funding in Northumberland has been welcomed by all my teachers and those in the F40 who are likewise affected. Will the Minister remind the individual councils of the F40 local authorities that all the schools in previously underfunded local authority areas should benefit, not just some …..."
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Written Question
Pupil Premium
Tuesday 10th June 2014

Asked by: Guy Opperman (Conservative - Hexham)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much in pupil premium has been paid to (a) first, (b) middle and (c) upper schools in (i) Hexham, (ii) Northumberland and (iii) the North East to date.

Answered by David Laws

Figures showing the pupil premium allocations to schools in the Hexham constituency area, Northumberland local authority, and the North East in the financial years 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14 are given in the table attached. These include allocations to academies in each area in each year. The figures for secondary schools include middle schools and all-through schools.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 12 May 2014
Free Schools (Funding)

"In my part of Northumberland, we have neither the benefits nor the perceived burden of a free school. We have focused on more primary places; the rebuild, authorised by the Secretary of State, of Prudhoe community high school; the creation of the Haltwhistle academy, the first in my constituency; and …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 29 Apr 2014
Schools Funding

"Sadly, my hon. Friend the Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham) cannot be here today, but it is two years since in this very Chamber he so eloquently made us all Taoists and began the long journey with a first step. It is as well to remember that the words he …..."
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