This Government are focused on levelling up. We are transforming our skills system so that everybody has a chance to train and retrain, and we are using important new data analysis from the Equality Hub to ensure that we are addressing where real inequality lies in the UK.

White British children who receive free school meals perform worse at GCSE than equivalent black and Asian children. We need to ensure that children from all backgrounds are succeeding in modern Britain, and that is going to be a major focus for the Equality Department, working with the Department for Education.

Digital skills are vital in the modern economy. We know that take-up is particularly low among girls in areas such as computing, and that is why the digital skills boot camps are vital. They are being rolled out across the country in spring 2021.

My hon. Friend is absolutely right; too many people have been let down in the past by poor education. We want to make that right, through the lifetime skills guarantee, making sure that there is an entitlement to level 3 qualifications and access to four years of loan funding.

In early years 25% of children with special educational needs achieved a good level of development in 2019, which compares with a figure of only 14% in 2013. We continue to do more to make sure that children with special educational needs have access to a good education.

It is very important that working mothers and fathers have access to childcare. That is why it is so important that we keep our schools and nurseries open, and continue to give the support of 30 hours a week of childcare for three and four-year-olds.