Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Review

The hon. Lady talked about recovery; she will know about the £5 billion announced for education r...

I call the Chair of the Education Committee, Robert Halfon.

My father, like my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State’s, was an immigrant who came here wit...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend the Chair of the Education Committee; I will always listen ...

Following a number of emotional meetings with desperate families in Batley and Spen, I can confir...

Increasing capacity came before the Green Paper, deliberately. I did not want to publish the Gree...

I welcome the Green Paper, the new educational psychologists and the new SENCO qualification, but...

My hon. Friend is a great champion of those with dyslexia and dyspraxia and has been a great advo...

I thank the Secretary of State for finally publishing the Green Paper, which is long overdue. How...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady for that important question. We will make sure that the standards ...

My mailbag—much like, I suspect, the mailbags of many other Members—is full of tales from parents...

I had a similar experience with a parent in my constituency who got so frustrated that they chose...

The Green Paper is welcome; it is better late than never. The Secretary of State will know about ...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman; he has always been a champion for those with special educati...

If we were to read through the SEND reforms in the Children and Families Act 2014 and the accompa...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend. Of course, we considered very carefully the recommendations from...

I put on record my thanks to the Secretary of State for briefing me and my right hon. Friend the ...

It was good to brief the hon. Lady and the right hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton. The Green...

I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement, which builds on the work done by my hon. Friend the M...

I know that my right hon. and learned Friend is passionate about this issue. It is important to r...

I wonder whether the Secretary of State is slightly divorced from reality and is seeing the schoo...

I respectfully remind the hon. Lady that, in my opening remarks, I mentioned that, in early years...

I welcome the statement, and I have two points to make. First, the fight—time and again, parents ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The changes that I spoke about include the single national in...

I welcome the Secretary of State’s statement, but as Members across the House have highlighted, t...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady, who I know is passionate about the issue and whose constituency I...

Publishing this Green Paper within six months of his taking office as Secretary of State demonstr...

My right hon. Friend and I share a passion for data and transparency. I know that he is looking a...

The request for diagnosis of special educational needs is the beginning of a long battle for far ...

I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s thoughtful question, which the Chair of the Education Comm...

I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his commitment to ensure that every child with SEND has th...

I could not have put it better myself—my hon. Friend is absolutely right. Our proposals include t...

While this is a welcome move, I think that there is an issue with the maths. It does not seem tha...

I know that the hon. Lady is passionate about maths. She will know that over the past three years...

I welcome the Secretary of State’s statement. Having been a special adviser in the Department whe...

I will happily meet my hon. Friend. Today, we announced the first tranche of £1.4 billion out of ...

Parents and carers find it extremely stressful when there is a lack of school places, and a lack ...

The hon. Lady’s final point is absolutely right. The plans for supporting parents will lead to mu...

I am losing my voice—I apologise for that—but I wanted to contribute because these proposals are ...

I thank my hon. Friend for making it here today, and I am glad that her voice is holding up. I ca...

A quick read through the Green Paper did not reveal much reference to higher education. I hope th...

I hope to be able to write to the hon. Lady giving her those details about the Green Paper, but s...

I thank the Secretary of State and his ministerial team for the emphasis that they place on this ...

Part of the reason why the Chancellor was so committed to this area and made £2.6 billion availab...

I am not going to join in the festival of patting the Secretary of State on the back at this stag...

I am disappointed.

After 12 years of Conservative government, we are seeing what is almost a scorecard of failure. N...

The drive behind the Green Paper is to ensure that we deliver across the board for every child wi...

Not surprisingly, there are some excellent proposals of real substance in the Green Paper. I thin...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his characteristically thoughtful and well-evidenced question...

I know from my own experience how important it is to receive the right support at the right time,...

I know that the hon. Lady is a passionate champion for blind and partially sighted people. We wil...

I know from visits to primary schools in my constituency—and the Green Paper underlines this—that...

As I have said, both yesterday and today, the combination of the schools White Paper and the pare...

I appreciate the Government’s honesty when they talk about the vicious cycle of late intervention...

The hon. Lady raises an important point. Part of my ambition and that of the Secretary of State f...

Last week my constituent Holly and the National Deaf Children’s Society came to see me to discuss...

I know that my hon. Friend is a great champion of children who are deaf. When I was Children and ...

The success rate for parents at appeal is indicative of a system that is completely broken. Of co...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to say that the success rate at tribunals is symptomatic o...

As another dyspraxic Member of Parliament, I wholeheartedly thank the Secretary of State for his ...

My hon. Friend is a great champion of those who have dyspraxia, and he has real in-depth knowledg...

The Secretary of State talked about the importance of early intervention, which many organisation...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her question. In that partnership, we are proposing to ensure ...

I am so grateful to my right hon. Friend for his work on this, and also to the Under-Secretary of...

My hon. Friend speaks with passion and probably pain from having to consult those parents who hav...

The Secretary of State has said that decisions about support are too often based on where a child...

Yes, I will write to the hon. Lady. I also want to remind the House that the national funding for...

Having the right support in the right place at the right time is undoubtedly the correct approach...

I can certainly give my hon. Friend the assurance that we will reach out to them.

Parents are battling and children are struggling every day in York, in that tug of war between th...

I am grateful for the hon. Lady’s characteristically thoughtful question. We made a commitment in...

The Green Paper highlights that many families find the current system bureaucratic and adversaria...

I thank my hon. Friend for his thoughtful question. He is right that we intend to make a number o...

I thank the Secretary of State for his positive statement. Covid-19 has been a big burden on pupi...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his excellent question. He is right to say this is the first step....

I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement, and particularly his reference to ensuring children a...

I certainly can. We are putting the best part of £5 billion into recovery.

The prize for perseverance and patience goes to Holly Mumby-Croft.

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker.

I recently visited St Hugh’s, an outstanding special schoo...

I certainly join my hon. Friend in thanking them. They go above and beyond. It has not been easy ...

That concludes the statement. I thank the Secretary of State for answering so many questions so t...