Department for Education

My hon. Friend tees me up for my next point. He also raises an important point. It is a political...

I have often heard Ministers say in justification of restrictions on school budgets that there ar...

I am going to move on, in particular, to the issue of capital funding where sometimes reserves ar...

The hon. Lady is making a very powerful case. Does she agree that these cuts are often hurting th...

The hon. Lady raises a significant point. In my own constituency, since 2011, special educational...

Order. As colleagues can see, a number of speakers wish to contribute to this debate and to the d...

I thank the hon. Members for Hackney South and Shoreditch (Meg Hillier) and for Oxford West and A...

I am listening with great interest to my right hon. Friend’s analysis. Does he agree that this Go...

My right hon. Friend is right. As he will hear in my remarks, I agree with much of what he says. ...

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way, and I commend his Committee’s decision ...

The inquiry covers schools and colleges, so that issue will form part of it. I note the hon. Gent...

It is a great pleasure to speak in this debate. One of the reasons I decided to go into politics ...

I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak in this very important estimates debate.

I ...

I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his significant speech, and I concur with the point he has j...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady for that intervention. Nobody wants to see any schools having to m...

It is a pleasure to speak in this debate. I would like to put on the record my thanks to the Back...

In my constituency, schools are now almost completely responsible for funding support services. C...

Indeed, we have heard about the higher needs block; that is yet another area where there is cost-...

Order. I gently remind colleagues that if they are going to intervene, it is important that they ...

Some years before I came to this place, I chaired something called the Grant Maintained Schools A...

Order. There are still a number of Members who wish to speak, so after the next speaker I will re...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Mid Derbyshire (Mrs Latham) on a very evidence-based, thought-...

I congratulate the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, the hon. Member for Hackney South and ...

One of the challenges is that, while this is a policy responsibility for the Department for Educa...

The hon. Lady is absolutely right, and it is of course the local authorities that get the blame f...

I have been in this House for eight and a half years. When I retired as deputy leader of Gateshea...

Well, I have been here for 22 years, and I have also seen a thing or two.

When I was a Mini...

I am proud to have supported the request for today’s debate that was co-ordinated by my hon. Frie...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Thelma Walker), who speaks with a hu...

Does my hon. Friend think it odd that the NHS has a budget for 10 years, local government has a b...

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. He reads my mind, because I was just about to say t...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Colchester (Will Quince).

The West of Englan...

I welcome today’s debate. Already, we have heard a whole range of broad themes around education, ...

Order. In order to be able to get everybody in, I am going to have to cut the time limit to five ...

I thank the hon. Member for Hackney South and Shoreditch (Meg Hillier) for bringing forward this ...

It is a great pleasure to be the tail-end Charlie in this high-quality debate and to follow the h...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham).

Many people hav...

I thank the hon. Member for Hackney South and Shoreditch (Meg Hillier) for introducing this extre...

What a fantastic debate we have had this afternoon. I congratulate all the many colleagues from a...

I thank the hon. Member for Hackney South and Shoreditch (Meg Hillier) for securing the debate. I...

Will the Minister give way?

I do not have much time, so if my right hon. Friend will forgive me, I will not.

My hon. Fr...

I rise very briefly to thank all hon. Members who have contributed and put in such detailed prepa...