Llun, 29 Ebrill 2024
The Secretary of State was asked—
What steps she is taking to improve support for children with special educational needs and disabilities.
What assessment she has made of trends in the number of apprenticeship achievements.
What recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of SEND provision.
If her Department will make an assessment of the potential impact of sports and PE on mental resilience in young people.
What steps she is taking to support education on Israel and antisemitism in secondary schools.
What recent discussions she has had with her counterparts in the devolved Administrations on the potential merits of providing additional financial support to school pupils in the context of...
When she expects the proposed Hanwood Park Free School in Kettering constituency to open.
What steps her Department has taken to improve standards of reading in schools.
What steps her Department is taking to encourage take-up of degree-level apprenticeships.
What assessment she has made of the potential impact of the plan 5 student loan repayment plan on levels of applications for university undergraduate courses.
What recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of SEND provision in schools in Bournemouth.
What steps her Department is taking to accelerate the roll-out of the Language for Life programme for nursery and pre-school age children.
What assessment she has made of the impact of real-terms reductions to school budgets since 2010 on school children.
If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.
(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the role of the UK armed forces in the middle east.
(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will make a statement on the introduction of checks on goods entering the UK under the border target...
4.51 pm
On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. During the urgent question on the humanitarian situation in Gaza on 17 April, the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development...
Ordered, That the Order of 20 March 2024 (Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill (Programme)) be varied as follows: (1) Paragraphs (2) to (5) of the Order shall be omitted. (2) Proceedings...
Bill to be considered in Committee.
Considered in Committee. [Relevant documents: Third Report of the Business and Trade Committee, Post Office and Horizon redress: Instruction to deliver, HC 477; Oral evidence taken before the...
I beg to move amendment 25, page 1, line 6, at end insert— “(za) the conviction took place before the coming into force of this Act,”. This amendment makes it clear that clause...
Amendments made: 29, page 2, line 32, at end insert “or section 17 of the Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969;”. This amendment, and amendments 30 to 33, add the equivalent offences for...
Amendment made: 34, page 3, line 15, at end insert— “(6) In this section “the Court of Appeal” means— (a) in the case of a conviction in England and Wales, the Court...
Amendments made: 35, page 3, line 17, leave out “Secretary of State” and insert “appropriate authority”. This amendment, and amendments 36 to 43, provide for the functions...
Amendments made: 45, page 4, line 3, after “has” insert “before the coming into force of this Act”. This amendment makes it clear that clause 5 applies only in relation to...
Amendments made: 48, page 5, line 7, leave out “an Act of Parliament passed” and insert “primary legislation passed or made”. This amendment is consequential on the...
Amendments made: 52, page 5, line 23, at end insert— “(a) in the case of England and Wales—”. This amendment is consequential on amendment 53. Amendment 53, page 5, line...
Amendment made: 56, page 6, line 25, leave out “only” and insert “and Northern Ireland”.—(Kevin Hollinrake.) This amendment provides for the Bill to extend to...
“(1) If it appears to the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland (“the Department”) that a person has before the coming into force of this Act been cautioned in Northern...
“(1) The Department of Justice in Northern Ireland may by regulations make provision that— (a) is consequential on any provision made by this Act, and (b) is transferred Northern...
Amendments made: 23, line 1, after “Wales” insert “and Northern Ireland”. This amendment is consequential on the extension of the Bill to Northern Ireland. Amendment 24,...
With the leave of the House, I will put motions 4 to 6 together. Motion made, and Question put forthwith ( Standing Order No. 118(6)),
That the draft Accounting Standards (Prescribed Bodies) (United States of America and Japan) (Amendment) Regulations 2024, which were laid before this House on 21 February, be approved.
That the draft Sea Fisheries (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024, which were laid before this House on 14 March, be approved.
That the draft National Crime Agency (Directed Tasking) Order 2023, which was laid before this House on 7 December 2023, be approved.—(Joy Morrissey.) Question agreed to.
Motion made, and Question proposed, That the sum to be deducted from the salaries of Members of the House of Commons in pursuance of section 4(1) and (2) of the House of Commons Members’...
Motion made, and Question Proposed, That, in pursuance of paragraph 2A of Schedule 3 of the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009, Ms Tina Fahm be appointed as a lay member of the Speaker’s...
Having spent the day dealing with the injustice of the Post Office Horizon scandal, we move to the injustice of the infected blood scandal. I join a number of right hon. and hon. colleagues in...
I rise to present a petition on behalf of the residents of Linlithgow and East Falkirk in relation to the recognition of Peter McLagan MP. I would like to pay tribute to local historian David...
Motion made, and Question proposed, That this House do now adjourn.—(Joy Morrissey.)
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