Education Funding

The £200 uplift in 16-to-18 funding is welcome—but it is only a start; it is for only one year; a...

This is a 4.7% increase. I know that the hon. Gentleman is a distinguished lecturer, and that he ...

The Secretary of State’s announcement of additional funds is very welcome, but as governors and h...

My right hon. and learned Friend makes an important point. I know that he represents a county tha...

We in Barnsley have lost nearly a third of our teaching assistants and school support staff. As a...

We are giving schools the largest funding package in a generation. I know how much all schools va...

I welcome the additional school funding announced by my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and...

I know that my hon. Friend has been campaigning with many other colleagues who have been affected...

Some of the consequences of the chronic underfunding of special educational needs have been a hug...

It is always vitally important that we do everything we can to support children with special educ...

May I begin by congratulating Goole academy on going from being in special measures a few years a...

I join my hon. Friend in congratulating Goole college on the turnaround it has been able to achie...

The question is whether parents have the information they need for utilising school funding. In B...

I can assure the hon. Lady that provision has been made for local authorities to deliver more mon...

I warmly welcome this huge investment and the decisive action to undo the historically unfair und...

Having had the great opportunity to visit Beauchamp college and Saint George’s primary school in ...

Special needs education is, we know, in crisis across the country, but in the county the right ho...

What we always take with great seriousness is how we can enhance and support all those with speci...

As a member of the f40 campaign, may I warmly welcome the Secretary of State’s announcement today...

My hon. Friend has long campaigned for a better and fairer funding settlement for Cornwall, and i...

We have seen a 53% increase in school exclusions over the last few years—a 53% increase—and half ...

It is absolutely vital to ensure proper discipline in every single school, but it is also vitally...

With permission Mr Speaker, I am delighted to make a statement today confirming the Prime Ministe...

Let me welcome the new Secretary of State to his place and thank him for advance sight of the sta...

I thank the hon. Lady for such a kind and warm welcome to me in my new role; it was very generous...

Give her a pay rise, then.

I might have to declare an interest.

I have seen the impact that teaching assistants have h...

I strongly welcome this spending settlement. We should celebrate it, not denigrate it. It is incr...

My right hon. Friend makes a very important point—the Education Committee’s report was an importa...

While I welcome the Secretary of State to his new position, I find it extraordinary that he is st...

I thank the hon. Lady for her characteristically warm welcome to me at the Dispatch Box. A lot of...

Order. A considerable number of right hon. and hon. Members are seeking to catch my eye, but I po...

I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement on education funding. It is really good news. W...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is a critical point and the reason we were so keen t...

The Institute for Fiscal Studies has described the Education Secretary‘s figure of £14 billion ex...

I know that the hon. Lady has long campaigned in the f40 group for changes in school funding, and...

Extra money for our schools would ordinarily be welcomed, but I suppose we are in quite unusual t...

We always keep that issue under review, and I will come back to my hon. Friend when we have made ...

We need to beware the smoke and mirrors. There has been an 8% cut in per pupil funding, and it wi...

We will update the House in due course on how we will work with Ofsted in that regard, but I thin...

Is my right hon. Friend aware that many good schools, such as William de Ferrers School in my con...

An important element of the funding settlement that we have agreed with the Treasury is a recogni...

The hon. Member for Manchester Central (Lucy Powell) is invariably the winner of the “biggest smi...

I do try, Mr Speaker.

I welcome the Secretary of State to his post. We in the Education Com...

I thank the hon. Lady for her kind words. She has raised an important point. I took the opportuni...