Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Nov 2022
Oral Answers to Questions
"King Edmund School, in the constituency of my right hon. Friend the Member for Rayleigh and Wickford (Mr Francois), is currently closed while building materials containing asbestos are removed from the site. Will the ministerial team look into this situation with a view to getting kids safely back to school …..."James Duddridge - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 29th January 2018
Asked by:
James Duddridge (Conservative - Rochford and Southend East)
Question
to the Department for Education:
What steps his Department is taking to improve support for children with special educational needs and disabilities.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
We have been strengthening the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities system through the biggest programme of reforms in a generation. We have legislated to improve the system and have invested £341 million since 2014 to help ensure the reforms make a real difference. We will continue to build on this, so that every child has the chance to fulfil their potential.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 29 Jan 2018
Oral Answers to Questions
"What is the Department doing to help children with special educational needs on their pathway to adulthood and, where appropriate, into the workforce?..."James Duddridge - View Speech
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Written Question
Thursday 21st September 2017
Asked by:
James Duddridge (Conservative - Rochford and Southend East)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the funding required to provide new capacity in Shoeburyness High School before September 2018.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Nationally, we have allocated £5.8bn from 2015 to 2020 to create more school places. Between 2010 and 2016, 735,000 new school places have been created.
Local authorities are responsible for planning and securing sufficient school places in their area, and supporting them in doing so is one of this Government’s top priorities. Local authorities make decisions on where to add capacity, based on local circumstances. Southend-on-Sea has received £20 million for new places between 2011 and 2017 and has been allocated a further £9.5 million for 2017 to 2020.
Written Question
Tuesday 19th September 2017
Asked by:
James Duddridge (Conservative - Rochford and Southend East)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her most recent estimate is of the funding required to establish a free school in Southend-on-Sea in 2019; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The department has not made an estimate of the funding required to establish a free school in Southend-on-Sea in 2019.
The department has provided Southend-on-Sea Borough Council with £20 million to fund new school places between 2011 and 2017 and a further £9.5 million for 2017 to 2020. This includes nearly £5 million for school places the local authority reported were needed for September 2019.
Where a local authority has identified that an area needs enough additional places to warrant a new school, it should run a competition to identify potential providers to run the school.
Guidance on this process is available on GOV.UK via this link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/establishing-a-new-school-free-school-presumption.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 04 Jul 2017
Education: Public Funding
"The Minister is rapidly becoming my favourite Minister. At the beginning of the consultation period, every school in Southend was going to lose out, but he listened, and that is no longer the case—there is more funding overall. However, will he look specifically at bulge funding where there is a …..."James Duddridge - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 21 Feb 2017
Education Funding: Southend
"I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Southend West (Sir David Amess) on his contribution and on initiating the debate. I particularly welcome the Minister, who is a beacon of stability in a Department in which Secretaries of State can come and go. I was an Education Whip during …..."James Duddridge - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Jan 2017
School Funding
"The hon. Lady is listing Members who are unhappy. I, like her, am unhappy. All the schools in Southend are receiving a cut under this funding formula, and I think it is the only local authority area outside central London where that is the case...."James Duddridge - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Jan 2017
School Funding
"The figures I have are from the House of Commons Library. I apologise if I have misread them, but that is my reading. Is not the point that this is a consultation? If this were a fait accompli, I would not support the Secretary of State, but this is a …..."James Duddridge - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Dec 2016
Oral Answers to Questions
"3. What assessment she has made of the potential merits of special needs schools multi-academy trusts. ..."James Duddridge - View Speech
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