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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Dec 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"I hope that the standard of the question is up to that of the jumper, Mr Speaker, but I fear that it may not be.

Notwithstanding what the Minister has said, the acting chief executive of Wakefield City Academies Trust managed to pay himself £1,000 a day in a company …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Sep 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"Pupils at the 21 schools managed by Wakefield City Academies Trust are among the most disadvantaged in the country. The collapse of the trust on Friday came as a bolt from the blue to them, their parents and their teachers. A leaked report in November found: that the trust was …..."
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Written Question
Education Funding Agency: Leeds
Monday 24th July 2017

Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Coventry East)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Education Funding Agency has completed its purchase of 1 The Embankment, Neville Street, Leeds LS1 4DW.

Answered by Nick Gibb

The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) did not complete the purchase of 1 The Embankment, Neville Street, Leeds LS1 4DW because planning permission was not granted by Leeds City Council. In agreement with the Free School Trust, the ESFA is now seeking to secure a suitable site within Wakefield.

Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Thursday 20th July 2017

Asked by: Mary Creagh (Labour - Coventry East)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Wakefield dated 15 March 2017.

Answered by Robert Goodwill

The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the School System sent a reply to the hon. Member’s letter on 21 April 2017.

A copy of the response will be forwarded to the hon. Member.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 27 Jun 2017
Education and Local Services

"With the news today that 95 tower blocks have failed the cladding test, it is clear that hundreds of children across the country, not just in Camden but in other local education authority areas, will experience the disruption of being moved out of their home. What will the Secretary of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 27 Jun 2017
Education and Local Services

"May I say how glad I am to be back in this place after a very close and hard-won general election campaign? It is wonderful to hear so many brilliant maiden speeches from colleagues in all parties; they are certainly going to give us old-timers a run for our money. …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Jan 2017
School Funding

"Every child in this country, and every disabled child in this country, deserves a decent education. The principle that no child should be worse off as a result of these funding reforms should run through this consultation. Where a child was born should not dictate their life chances, yet that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Jan 2017
School Funding

"No, I am not giving way.

Fair funding should mean a levelling up, not a levelling down. Every school in my constituency will see their funding cut under the Secretary of State’s proposals. The manifesto promise to protect education spending has been broken, as we have heard from my hon. …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Jan 2017
School Funding

"I will not give way.

Nine maintained schools across Wakefield district are projected to be in deficit by 31 March, which means increased class sizes, subjects dropped from the curriculum, pupils with special educational needs and disabilities losing vital support, and teacher vacancies left unfilled.

There will also be a …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 25 Jan 2017
School Funding

"The hon. Lady reinforces my point, which is that the Government must take into account rising pupil numbers. This formula and the efficiency savings fail to do that, so she needs to have a word with her Secretary of State about them.

We cannot have a situation in which there …..."
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