We are making wraparound childcare available for all parents who need it, with £289 million investment to help schools develop programmes before and after school. I am sure the Minister for Children, Families and Wellbeing will be happy to meet my hon. Friend to keep him updated on progress.

Absolutely; I set that out in my topical statement. We are working with every local authority to ensure places are available. The Conservatives have a plan for working parents while Labour has none.

This Conservative Government are backing brilliant childcare providers as we roll out our historic childcare offer. Average funding rates will increase over the next two financial years, giving businesses confidence to invest and expand.

Academic independence and free speech are important. That's why we passed the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 and have a free speech director in the Office for Students.

I support all great schools in our diverse school system, including strong grammar schools. I encourage them to increase access for disadvantaged pupils which can help with social mobility.

In the 2021 spending review, we committed £19 billion for school capital over the three years. I do not know offhand the specifics of the schools that the hon. Gentleman has mentioned, but I would of course be very happy to meet him to hear further details.

I would be absolutely delighted to visit Kirklees College, and I congratulate my hon. Friend on his apprenticeship fair. Overall at Kirklees since 2010, there have been something like 12,300 apprenticeship starts in my hon. Friend's constituency.

The hon. Gentleman will, of course, know of our plans and our support for the private Member's Bill on that subject. From the schools White Paper, he will also know of the other things we have committed to do when legislative time allows.

I recognise what my hon. Friend says about rurality. Of course, the lump sum element in the funding formula is important for small schools. We have more than doubled the national funding formula sparsity funding in three years, with £6.5 million for Devon in 2024-25.

Yes, and I am aware that the hon. Lady has met my noble Friend Baroness Barran. Inspections by structural engineers are ongoing, as I think the hon. Lady will know, but the early indications are that this was a historical and isolated issue about the way the school was built.

My hon. Friend raises a very important point. We are taking a number of actions to increase the number of people who adopt and foster, and to support kinship care as well, but I would be happy to discuss this matter with him further.

Through our special educational needs and disabilities and alternative provision improvement plan we are taking a whole range of actions. That has included increasing the number of special school places by more than 60,000 since this Government came to power, as well as training a lot more special educational needs co-ordinators.

I regret that, as education is a devolved matter, the Labour party is in charge of education in Wales. It really saddens me to hear of children in my hon. Friend's constituency suffering from its mismanagement of that system, despite the great work of brilliant and inspiring teachers in Wales.

I was delighted to attend the Association of School and College Leaders conference alongside Sir Martyn Oliver, who announced the Big Listen, which is part of making sure that we get the cultural reforms required. I am concerned by reports that some teachers and headteachers feel that they are not listened to or treated in a dismissive or rude manner.

I thank my right hon. and learned Friend for his question. Arthur Balfour was a great man and identified the need for a homeland for British Jews. That is why antisemites do not like him and are slashing his picture. I and the Secretary of State are spending a lot of time with Jewish student groups. I have been to Leeds University to spend time with Jewish students, because the chaplain there was attacked, and we are working with Universities UK. We have announced a £7 million package to give to Jewish student groups, including the University Jewish Chaplaincy, to try to stop antisemitism on campus. We are also developing a quality seal that we will ask universities to adopt, so that they deal properly with antisemitic incidents.