Education
Schools, universities, education policy (NOT student visas)
Recent PMQs Questions
View all 16PMQs 2026-01-28
Elemore Hall school supports more than 200 of County Durham’s vulnerable young people. With an extra school site and PACC extension, Elemore could offer more opportunities locally, saving costs for al...
PMQs 2026-01-21
I strongly welcome the Government’s decision to consult on introducing a social media ban for under-16s. That is something that the Tories did not do in office and did not even support until last week...
PMQs 2026-01-14
I welcome the Government’s commitment to tackling child poverty and recognising high-quality education as an escape route. However, young people attending Churchill community college have been taught ...
PMQs 2025-10-22
Twelve-year-old Millie Blair from Oundle joins us today in the Gallery along with her mum, Gemma, her sister, Jessica, and her dad, Gordon. On Millie’s 11th birthday, she was diagnosed with a rare bon...
PMQs 2025-10-15
For the past year, I have been campaigning for a new special educational needs and disabilities school to open at the Osprey Quay site on Portland. There are far too few specialist school places for c...
PMQs 2025-07-09
I met headteachers and SEND co-ordinators in my constituency last week who all told me the same thing: the SEND system is broken, with adversarial processes, parents at breaking point, insufficient sp...
PMQs 2025-03-26
In 30 minutes, we will hear the Chancellor’s emergency Budget—even the Home Secretary’s husband calls it an emergency Budget—as she scrambles to fix the mess she made last October. But first, let us t...
PMQs 2025-03-05
On Monday, the Prime Minister talked about creating defence jobs across the country as we rebuild our defence industrial capacity. Will he and the Government bring forward an urgent plan for skills in...
PMQs 2025-02-05
I was delighted recently to visit Chaucer school, a great school in my constituency with fantastic young people and innovative and motivated teaching staff. But 14 years of Tory government did not do ...
PMQs 2025-01-22
The facts speak for themselves: standards went up under Conservative Governments. What we need to know is who is benefiting. Everyone is asking: who is benefiting from these changes? It is not teacher...
Recent Ministerial Questions
View all 146Protecting Young People Online 2026-02-04
What engagement is the Department having with the Department for Education’s curriculum review to give young people the skills, information and support they need to identify online harms and misinform...
Social Media Ban 2026-02-04
I recently met a headteacher in my constituency who told me that social media use during school hours has reached the stage where some schools are weighing up budgeting for and investment in schemes t...
Post-16 Education 2026-01-26
I welcome the commitment in the post-16 education and skills White Paper to support the development of skills passports, because supporting young people to develop essential skills such as media and f...
SEND High-quality School Places 2026-01-19
Parents in Burton and Uttoxeter tell me that, under Reform-run Staffordshire county council, their pleas for help are too often ignored, leaving children in unsuitable settings or out of education alt...
SEND High-quality School Places 2026-01-19
I draw attention to the fact that my wife is employed by our local authority as a special educational needs co-ordinator. At the start of this school year, my local authority, the London borough of Be...
Academy Trusts Governance 2026-01-19
Pressures on schools to convert to academy trusts are considerable and widespread, but acadising at all costs is not always in everybody’s interests. Some parents in Glastonbury and Somerton have told...
Academy Trusts Governance 2026-01-19
Financial mismanagement by the Arthur Terry Learning Partnership trust has led to disputes with the National Education Union and, currently, strikes, which is disrupting the learning of students acros...
Improving Outcomes for Young People 2026-01-15
Data suggests around 50,000 children are not getting the music education they deserve and the cuts to music PGCE—postgraduate certificate in education—bursaries will exacerbate the problem. While £25 ...
Post-16 Skills Education 2025-12-08
After 14 years of neglect, young people in Barrow and Furness are going to benefit from this Government’s commitment to supporting the apprenticeships that will drive our local economy. Does the Minis...
Support into Work Mental Ill Health 2025-12-08
As is the case throughout the country, young constituents in Esher and Walton are out of work due to mental health conditions. I welcome departmental initiatives such as the disability employment advi...