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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 13 Sep 2018
Deaf Children’s Services

"I appreciate the reassurance that has just been given, but as the money is not ring-fenced, if the NDCS or anyone else can find any evidence that it is not being used properly for profoundly deaf students between the ages of 16 and 18, will the Minister be prepared to …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 13 Sep 2018
Deaf Children’s Services

"It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. It is also a pleasure to serve with the hon. Member for Poplar and Limehouse (Jim Fitzpatrick), whom I have known for a long time, in the all-party parliamentary group on deafness. I congratulate him on securing this important …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Thu 06 Sep 2018
Children in Need: Adulthood

"I thank the hon. Gentleman for securing this important debate. I know he received much support from the Children’s Society and its “Crumbling Futures” report, which is essentially what the debate is all about. I and every other MP has had to deal with the harrowing reality of parents coming …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 May 2018
National Funding Formula: Social Mobility

"It is a privilege to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Walker. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bath (Wera Hobhouse) for securing the debate. It was very short-notice but, as she flagged up, this is an important issue.

This is one of those fascinating debates where it is …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 May 2018
National Funding Formula: Social Mobility

"I entirely agree. A lot of it was apparently not new money, and anyway, even with the best will in the world, it just held everything in place for 12 months—it did not solve the problem. As my hon. Friend has emphasised, as we began to pick into and drill …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 May 2018
National Funding Formula: Social Mobility

"My hon. Friend is so right. We know that is true. Hon. Members will have spoken to their local headteachers and visited their schools. The number of teaching assistants has been slashed, and support for disabled children is under tremendous pressure. The schools are creaking—there are no two ways about …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 May 2018
National Funding Formula: Social Mobility

"On that basis, how does the Minister explain the fact that in the past 18 months or so the number of schools releasing teaching assistants has grown faster than in the previous few years? Does he accept that that must be because of budgetary pressures and that, if it happens …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 22 May 2018
National Funding Formula: Social Mobility

"The Minister has been talking a lot about the national fair funding formula and the additional money in the constituencies of the hon. Member for South Shields (Mrs Lewell-Buck) and of my hon. Friends the Members for Bath and for Oxford West and Abingdon. When exactly will that national funding …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 19 Mar 2018
Oral Answers to Questions

"T7. A few weeks ago I had the privilege of meeting the father of Oliver King and founder of the Oliver King Foundation. His young lad, Oliver, died at school. His father’s ambition is to get a defibrillator in every school, because the work that the foundation has done identified …..."
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Written Question
Children: Disability
Friday 9th March 2018

Asked by: Stephen Lloyd (Liberal Democrat - Eastbourne)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to amend s1.3 of the Children Act 1989 to better define the classification of disability as incapacity to parent.

Answered by Nadhim Zahawi

Whilst we constantly keep policy under review, we have not had discussions about bringing forward legislative proposals to amend section 1(3).