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Education Funding, Prime Minister’s Questions

At Prime Minister’s Questions I challenged Boris Johnson on support for young people. Children’s education and wellbeing has really suffered during the pandemic. You can watch my question here. We’ve got a big challenge to support their recovery. Today the Government announced catch up funding that amounts to just 43p…

High street businesses and COVID-19

I’m very concerned about the impact of Covid-19 on high street businesses. I’ve been talking to lots of local business owners and recently met with the Ilford Business Improvement District and Exchange shopping centre. They’ve all made it clear that help with business rates would make the most impact on…

Tories fail our kids when Britain should be best place to grow up – Sunday People, February 2021

Hundreds of thousands of children are still without the laptops and internet to learn from home – if the Government does not act now it would lead to a national disgrace.

Thank you to head teachers

Schools are doing a great job in extraordinary circumstances. Just the other week I was talking to Ms Hamill at Oaks Park High School about the fantastic work her staff are doing for pupils. It’s the same story at schools across the borough. I want to say a big public…

Scrapping of Universal Credit uplift

I know that lots of people are having a really hard time at the moment because of the impact of covid-19 on livelihoods. This is affecting a lot of people locally and I’ve been doing my best to help people who’ve been in touch about their own situations. Today I…

Questions to the Home Secretary

More than 400,000 police records have been lost, compromising police investigations and making it harder to bring criminals to justice. I’ve raised this as an urgent matter with the Home Secretary demanding information of the full impact on Ilford North and vitally how we can fix this very serious problem.…

UK-EU Trade Deal vote

I’m in Parliament today and I voted for the UK-EU trade deal, which has just passed the Commons. Unlike so many other Brexit-related votes we’ve had in recent years, I haven’t agonised about this and do not feel conflicted about it. I want to explain why. We’ve left the European…

Question Time Debut

Last Thursday 10th December, I made my BBC Question Time debut with a virtual audience from Chelmsford. We discussed a range of topics, including racism in football after Millwall fans booed their players for taking a knee at the start of their match against Derby. My response to the issue…

We need to learn pandemic lessons to avoid failing pupils in 2021 – Sunday People, December 2020

More than a million children have been missing school in recent weeks – numbers unprecedented in peacetime. This risks permanently damaging children’s education and development. Differences in attendance also risk creating a terrible new North-South divide, with entire communities of children simply being left behind. Exams regulator Ofqual has warned…

Education Questions

Last summer’s exam results were a total shambles that could have been avoided. For exams to go ahead fairly and successfully, we need a plan NOW. Parents, pupils, teachers and school leaders are crying out for clarity and certainty. MP after MP raised this at Education Questions today. Listen to…

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