Written Question
Tuesday 17th June 2025
Asked by:
Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what funding is available from her Department for repairs to the heating system at Meadowgate Academy.
Answered by Stephen Morgan
- Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
Meadowgate Academy, as part of the Affinity Multi-Academy Trust, can access capital funding by applying to the condition improvement fund (CIF) each year. They can also apply for urgent capital support funding for urgent circumstances that cannot wait for the next CIF round.
My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education has written to the right hon. Member for North East Cambridgeshire in more detail about Meadowgate’s specific circumstances.
Written Question
Thursday 13th March 2025
Asked by:
Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish her Department's advice issued to Cambridgeshire County Council in relation to plans to expand the number of places at Meadowgate Academy in Wisbech.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell
In February 2021, the department approved the expansion of Meadowgate Academy by 60 places. The department has not provided advice to Cambridgeshire County Council on plans to expand the number of places.
Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 27 Oct 2015
Trade Union Bill (Tenth sitting)
"I take due note, Sir Edward...."Steve Barclay - View Speech
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 15 Oct 2015
Trade Union Bill (Fourth sitting)
"Sir Alan, I will just point out that Opposition Members have used up pretty much half the sitting so far, before there has been any question from Government Members...."Steve Barclay - View Speech
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 15 Oct 2015
Trade Union Bill (Third sitting)
"On a point of order, Sir Edward. It would be completely unparliamentary for any Member to seek to gag another Member. I assure the Chair that no such attempt to gag Members has taken place. I request the hon. Gentleman to withdraw that suggestion...."Steve Barclay - View Speech
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Written Question
Thursday 22nd January 2015
Asked by:
Steve Barclay (Conservative - North East Cambridgeshire)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to paragraph 5.1.2 of the report of the Prime Minister's Task Force on Tackling Radicalisation and Extremism, published in December 2013, how many people have been barred from managing or teaching at independent schools because of involvement with or links to extremism under the new regulations.
Answered by Edward Timpson
New regulations enabling the Secretary of State to bar individuals from taking part in the management of independent schools came into force in September 2014. A number of cases are under consideration.
These regulations cover individuals involved in the management of independent schools rather than teachers. The Teachers’ Standards were amended in September 2012 to require that teachers uphold public trust in the profession by not undermining fundamental British values. The National College of Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) takes decisions on whether to bar individuals from teaching and guidance to teacher misconduct panels issued in July 2014 makes clear behaviour that promotes extremism is likely to be considered incompatible with being a teacher. Four individuals are currently subject to Interim Prohibition Orders by NCTL preventing them from teaching for reasons relating to extremism.
We will investigate and take action wherever we find evidence of extremism.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 12 Jan 2015
Consumer Rights Bill
"Let us take the Rugby Football Union, for example. Tickets are sold at a discount to promote the game of rugby, so it is not the operation of the free market as my hon. Friend and I would traditionally refer to it. Tickets are sold to promote the game and …..."Steve Barclay - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 12 Jan 2015
Consumer Rights Bill
"My hon. Friend will not take my intervention...."Steve Barclay - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 01 Dec 2014
Oral Answers to Questions
"T3. My right hon. Friend has a strong commitment to teacher training. Will he join me in supporting a Fens teaching and learning centre based in Wisbech that will support not just north Cambridgeshire but also west Norfolk and south Lincolnshire, and help with retention, recruitment and talent management?..."Steve Barclay - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 13 Mar 2014
School Funding
"I join my Cambridgeshire colleagues in welcoming this rise, which is much needed by schools in East Cambridgeshire and Fenland in my constituency. Does he agree that parents will not forget the unfair allocation left by the previous Labour Government, which has penalised our schools for the first half of …..."Steve Barclay - View Speech
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