Speeches by Hinds.

“Yes, but Network Rail presumably knows.”

“We are on the same wavelength.”

“No disrespect, but why do they need you?”

“On your first trimester gestation, I am just trying to understand this. There are obviously large public sector datasets that are made available—Ordnance Survey, Royal Mail postcodes and a bunch of others—and HMRC data or DWP data can be made available to researchers with appropriate safeguards. I am not quite sure tha…”

“Common ownership as a means of exchange.”

“They build APIs between the different systems so you can index the two datasets together. Anyway, we will find out in the fullness of time—or term.”

“Well, if the data exists, it has it. I am not sure how your exchange—well, we will find out in due course, I suppose. Perhaps in the third trimester.”

“When the Prime Minister met the Lionesses in June, he spoke of a new framework that would include a clear focus on equal access and two hours a week of physical education. Two hours a week of physical education is already, and has been for some time, the DfE recommendation to schools as part of the overall CMO’s recomm…”

“Yes, but Network Rail presumably knows.”

“We are on the same wavelength.”

“No disrespect, but why do they need you?”

“On your first trimester gestation, I am just trying to understand this. There are obviously large public sector datasets that are made available—Ordnance Survey, Royal Mail postcodes and a bunch of others—and HMRC data or DWP data can be made available to researchers with appropriate safeguards. I am not quite sure tha…”

“What is the earliest time?”

“Those recommendations are at a certain level. As you rightly say, there are still then programmes of study, resources and so on. It takes a very long time to re-spec public exams. I realise that it will not be in your control, but based on your experience and knowledge of the process, what will be the earliest point at…”

“Are you going to make recommendations to Government in the summer?”

“Are you looking at causality? I am not sure I understand how those things would affect your recommendation to up-weight or down-weight a particular subject area. With LEO, you could say you are looking at predictive factors that if children study this early on they do better in a broader range of things later. But what…”

“There are differences between stakeholders, as there always are with these questions. You mentioned earlier that you would follow the data. So what data are there available to be followed?”

“With any curriculum review, there are bound to be multiple objectives that you have to try to balance. You have very clearly set out what some of those are. In the last curriculum review in 2014, the headline or single-sentence explanation that Ministers wanted at the time would have been, “We looked around the world t…”

“Terribly inconsistent!”

“First, is handwriting still as important as it was? Secondly, if you were to change the way that assessment is done for most children in most subjects, might that have an adverse effect on handwriting lower down the school?”