Speeches by Hinds.

“That was a gift, yes.”

“And you have to know about them. That was more my point.”

“Michael, I want to come back to this thing about the balance between buildings and intangible cultural heritage. The Marquee operated in—I had to look this up—at least five different buildings at different points in its time, but people mourn the loss of The Marquee. Another big name in music in London, the Town and Co…”

“Just to support Sir John’s case, which he put clearly, I think that there will be very wide interest across the House in this debate. My own interest comes not only from the prison side, having been prisons Minister, but from education. I have been struck by the high prevalence of various degrees of acquired brain inju…”

“Thank you for calling me, Mrs Harris. I first met Travis Frain, the constituent of the hon. Member for Rossendale and Darwen (Andy MacNae), when I was Security Minister at the Home Office. Travis has been instrumental in the survivors movement. He was one of a number of brave victims, survivors and family members I had…”

“We are on the same wavelength.”

“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.”

“Common ownership as a means of exchange.”

“Yes, but Network Rail presumably knows.”

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

“We are on the same wavelength.”

“Yes, but Network Rail presumably knows.”

“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…”

“Do we take from that that PE may well become, as it is known, a core subject, as opposed to a foundation subject?”

“You mentioned earlier that the national curriculum is actually quite a loose framework, much looser than most people commonly understand. One change we have coming with current legislation is that the freedom to deviate from the national curriculum will be extinguished. It is not used by many anyway, but it is there as…”

“I just want to ask one other question on a completely different aspect, which is handwriting. There is some debate at the moment about the relevance or importance of handwriting in a world where more and more people use keyboards or other technologies to communicate the written word. I just wonder if you think there is…”

“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?”

“Terribly inconsistent!”

“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…”