Speeches by Voaden.

“I have another question for you, Clare. The Bill places a responsibility on local authorities to support parents who have decided to home educate their children. What support would be helpful to receive from local authorities? My supplementary question might guide your answer a little bit: what support could be provide…”

“Do you think it is appropriate that in a situation like Broadleaf, where you are guiding children towards GCSEs, children do not have access to GCSEs unless the parents can afford to pay? The state is not paying for them to be educated in one of its schools; it seems rather unfair that the parents then have to pay for …”

“I think many people would be quite surprised that home educated children do not have access to exams.”

“A final question for you, Clare—I know you have had lots of questions and we will move on in a minute. What are your concerns about the Bill’s provision covering independent educational institutions, which I believe Broadleaf falls under?”

“That is fine. It was on your concerns about the provisions covering independent institutions.”

“I represent Totnes, and I assure you that you are speaking today for many, many parents I have seen. We have a huge home-education community who share your concerns. I think it is a question of trying to find the balance between not letting children get lost from the system and put at risk of danger, and not disparagin…”

“We are now going to talk about teachers’ pay and conditions. First, I would like to ask you all what effect you expect the Bill’s requirement on qualified teacher status, and on pay and conditions, to have on recruitment and retention? We will start with Daniel.”

“Thank you. My supplementary question is, what impact do you think there will be on schools’ ability to plug staffing gaps or bring in experience from other professions? You have touched a little bit on that, but does any of you have anything extra that you would like to say on whether academies should be restricted to …”

“Moving on to the national curriculum, what impacts do you expect the provisions in the Bill requiring academies to teach the national curriculum to have?”

“I have another question for you, Clare. The Bill places a responsibility on local authorities to support parents who have decided to home educate their children. What support would be helpful to receive from local authorities? My supplementary question might guide your answer a little bit: what support could be provide…”

“Do you think it is appropriate that in a situation like Broadleaf, where you are guiding children towards GCSEs, children do not have access to GCSEs unless the parents can afford to pay? The state is not paying for them to be educated in one of its schools; it seems rather unfair that the parents then have to pay for …”

“I think many people would be quite surprised that home educated children do not have access to exams.”

“A final question for you, Clare—I know you have had lots of questions and we will move on in a minute. What are your concerns about the Bill’s provision covering independent educational institutions, which I believe Broadleaf falls under?”

“That is fine. It was on your concerns about the provisions covering independent institutions.”

“I represent Totnes, and I assure you that you are speaking today for many, many parents I have seen. We have a huge home-education community who share your concerns. I think it is a question of trying to find the balance between not letting children get lost from the system and put at risk of danger, and not disparagin…”

“Headteachers in my constituency of South Devon have expressed some disappointment today at the reform in the Ofsted regime; they said it offered the opportunity for fundamental reform but they do not see that. For example, there are no details on how inclusion will be measured, which we know is absolutely crucial for a…”

“Since the election, I have seen and heard lots of evidence of more conversations happening between the UK and the EU than did over the previous few years, so I accept what you are saying about a rapprochement and a more positive engagement. You say that the Government are keen to increase trade—”

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“I apologise, Sir Jeremy. The Government are saying that they want to increase trade with the European Union. Could the Minister comment on how helpful he thinks it is when suggestions are put forward by the European Union? Last week, for example, we had a suggestion of a pan-European Mediterranean customs agreement, wh…”

“The Government talk a lot about growth being crucial for restoring the public finances. Does my hon. Friend agree that sectors such as hospitality—it is important in my constituency of South Devon—are struggling from lack of staff? If we could restore a youth movement deal, we would have lots of enthusiastic European y…”