Speeches by Hinds.

“You do not think it is important to have a ringfenced fund?”

“Which hoops is the hon. Gentleman looking forward to the removal of?”

“That leads nicely to what I want to point out. We quite often say “PE and school sport” as a single phrase and we use the two halves of it almost interchangeably as if they were the same thing. When we talk to people like you, we realise that they are not the same thing at all. What do you think is the right balance, p…”

“That covers it well, I guess. We have a curriculum review going on at the moment. What are your hopes and expectations about what that will deliver?”

“For completeness, a lot of primary school heads would also tell you that they were able to do things with the primary PE and sport premium that they were never able to do in the past. I don’t want to put words in your mouth but it sounds to me, from what you are saying, that you would keep ringfenced funding but not pu…”

“The Minister speaks with a great deal of knowledge and authority, particularly on acquired brain injury, but I want to come back to the covid point. Obviously, a Westminster Hall debate is not the place to establish correlation versus causality in any sense. However, if we look at a graph of what has happened with chil…”

“The Minister would be making perfectly adequate points if we were talking only about this country. We could make all sorts of points about what Government policy was and what happened to Sure Start, the curriculum and youth clubs, but those things did not happen in France, Germany or the United States.”

“I confessed myself a sinner at the start, Mr Stringer, and I will now come to a close. In the Online Safety Act, we covered a lot regarding content and contact, but we need to do more on the issues of time and addiction, and I am pleased to see some of that in the work of the hon. Member for Whitehaven and Workington (…”

“To be fair to the Minister and previous Ministers, I think they do make efforts to hear from young people. An interesting survey by the Youth Endowment Fund, which I commend to the hon. Lady and others, put an extreme proposition to 13 to 17-year-olds: “If you could turn off social media forever for you and everybody e…”

“I thank Kim Campbell and the petitioners, including almost 400 from East Hampshire, for bringing this debate to Parliament. There has been a lot of interest of late in Australia’s upcoming ban on social media for under-16s, and I was interested in how the Australians are going to implement it, considering some of the c…”

“It was disappointing to see in the January figures that fraud has risen again after it had been coming down, but I commend the Government for proceeding with the Payment Services (Amendment) Regulations 2024 to slow down payments where there is a reasonable suspicion of fraudulent activity. What effect does the Ministe…”

“I think the Minister takes my point.”

“I know I am going on for way too long, Mr Stringer.”

“I am very grateful—”

“Will the hon. Lady give way?”

“Can the hon. Member please explain what she means?”

“The hon. Lady is quite right. I was only going to speak about this for three minutes or so, but the hon. Gentleman tempted me into other areas. On the promise that he was making one last intervention, I indulged him, and I am grateful to him. In an earlier intervention on the Minister for School Standards, I mentioned …”

“I appreciate what the hon. Gentleman says. I had my most recent constituency session with parents on the matter last Friday, and with some things, there is a bit of a grey area. Lots of parents say, “I don’t really mind so much about this”, but others do mind. With tracking technology, for example, some parents say tha…”

“On that promise, I will give way.”

“I am grateful to my hon. Friend the shadow Minister for refocusing what I was saying, and he is absolutely right. Some of our worries in relation to children apply regardless of the piece of technology. Anything that demands our attention and is ever-present brings such risks.”