Education
Schools, universities, education policy (NOT student visas)
Accountability Metrics for Education
Recent PMQs Questions
View all 211PMQs 2026-07-15
South East Water has failed communities, causing Downlands community school in Hassocks to send 1,200 pupils home because they had no water. Does the Prime Minister agree that before new housing devel...
PMQs 2026-07-15
Watching the Prime Minister secure his legacy this week, with the NATO summit and the Hillsborough law, I wondered if he wanted to make it a hat-trick, and support Shrewsbury college's bid for a new c...
PMQs 2026-07-08
Will the Deputy Prime Minister join me in welcoming Bev's pledge to extend free travel on public transport to all 11 to 18-year-olds, so all our young people in Greater Manchester can have the indepen...
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If it is all so fantastic, why is the Prime Minister resigning? It is very generous of him to stick by his Ministers, because they did not stick by him. He can say what he likes, but the people of Abe...
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I thank the Deputy Prime Minister and others for their comments about Jo Cox; our thoughts are with her family today, as they are every day. May I also thank the Harlow Town Park volunteers, who I joi...
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Every year, about 160 university students commit suicide. That is more than three every week, yet there is no established duty of care on universities to protect the health, safety and welfare of thei...
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I think the whole country is sick of this man's tone-deaf, pompous moralising. Since the last King's Speech, it has been one disaster after another: cronyism, jobs for friends of convicted paedophiles...
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The Prime Minister will be happy that I am not going to ask about fuel duty. Businesses across South West Hertfordshire are telling me that they are now reluctant to take on young workers due to this ...
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Too often, I hear from families of children with special educational needs and disabilities in Hertford and Stortford whose children have been left out of education for months or even years because th...
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I visited Woking high school where I saw classrooms built in the 1960s being held together by gaffer tape. A music classroom was condemned due to a hole in the roof and mold. Will the Prime Minister c...
Recent Ministerial Questions
View all 2511Reoffending Reduction Programmes
I refer Members to my entry in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. Last week, I visited a prison with the University and College Union to look at the prison education service. I saw the powe...
Youth Offending
What discussions has the Minister had with Alan Milburn about his review, and how can we ensure that young offenders are put on a more productive pathway?...
Reoffending Reduction Programmes 2026-09-15
I refer Members to my entry in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. Last week, I visited a prison with the University and College Union to look at the prison education service. I saw the powe...
Topical Questions 2026-09-15
The Minister has been brilliant in helping to identify children with a parent in prison. Will he agree to join me on 25 November for Children with a Parent in Prison Day to hear from young people abou...
Youth Offending 2026-09-15
What discussions has the Minister had with Alan Milburn about his review, and how can we ensure that young offenders are put on a more productive pathway?...
Topical Questions 2026-09-14
Will the Secretary of State for Education join me in commending my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Fareham and Waterlooville (Suella Braverman) on her proposal that every school in the la...
Topical Questions 2026-09-14
Students on the Manhood peninsula in my constituency have no access to post-16 education unless they travel into the city to go to the brilliant Chichester college, and those parents who are paying fo...
Topical Questions 2026-09-14
In Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven we are lucky enough to have two brilliant universities. Both are trying everything they can to adapt to the funding pressures they are under, but it still means tha...
Topical Questions 2026-09-14
I have been contacted by students, parents and teachers in my constituency telling me that the cost of transport is a key barrier to accessing education and other opportunities. A 19-year-old told me ...
Topical Questions 2026-09-14
We all know that child safeguarding is non-negotiable, so does the Secretary of State share my concern that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children's most recent schools briefin...