Extracts from Lords debate on the Queen's Speech - Oct 22
Lord Storey (LD):...By narrowing the curriculum, we have seen creative subjects decline in the state system year on year while flourishing in the independent and private schools sector...
Wednesday, 23 October 2019 09:01
Extracts from Parliamentary Proceedings - Oct 22
Mark Pawsey (Rugby) (Con): What support her Department is providing for the development of electric vehicle technology...
Wednesday, 23 October 2019 08:46
Extract from Wales Assembly statement on 'Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales' - Oct 22
Vaughan Gething AM (Minister for Health and Social Services):...On your point about physical activity, you talked about sport in schools...
Wednesday, 23 October 2019 08:43
Early sight of oral questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department - Oct 28
Jeff Smith (Manchester, Withington): If she will make it her policy to maintain the rights of unaccompanied child refugees in Europe to family reunion in the UK in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal...
Wednesday, 23 October 2019 08:16
Government’s special educational needs reforms failing young people and parents, say MPs
A generation of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities is failing to receive the support it deserves, with poorly implemented legislation leaving families facing a nightmare of bureaucracy, buck-passing and confusion...
Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:01
National Audit Office report on Fracking for shale gas in England
Progress in establishing a shale gas industry in England has been slower than government planned, according to today’s report by the National Audit Office...
Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:01
Radical change needed in approach to UK drugs policy, say MPs
The Health and Social Care Committee’s latest Report today calls for a radical new approach to the country’s current drug policy...
Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:01
HMG does not know who is responsible for decommissioning fracking sites - Rebecca Long Bailey responds
Rebecca Long Bailey MP, Labour’s Shadow Business and Energy Secretary, responding to an NAO report revealing that the government does not know who has ultimate responsibility to pay for the decommissioning of fracking sites, said...
Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:01
LGA responds to Education select committee report on SEND
Responding to the Education Select Committee review of support for children with special educational needs (SEND), Cllr Judith Blake, Chair of the Local Government Association’s Children and Young People Board, said...
Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:01
ASCL comment on Education Committee SEND report
Commenting on the report of the House of Commons Education Committee on support for young people with special educational needs and disabilities...
Wednesday, 23 October 2019 00:01