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Queen's speech debate on Wednesday, 2 June 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Gove. The answering member was Ed Balls.

Education and Health

Queen's speech debate (fourth day) on education and health.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
510 c455-547 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department of Health
Department for Education
Procedure
Addresses to the Crown
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Emma Reynolds | 510 c496-9 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Totnes (Dr Wollaston) on making such an excellent maiden speech, ...
Chuka Umunna | 510 c508-10 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for calling me to give my maiden speech today. I congratulate my fell...
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Christopher Pincher | 510 c526-8 (Link to this contribution) First, let me pay tribute to the hon. Member for Sheffield Central (Paul Blomfield) for his wry and ...
Stella Creasy | 510 c532-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for allowing me the opportunity to make my maiden speech. I hope to ha...
Robert Halfon | 510 c487-9 (Link to this contribution) Given that it has taken me 10 years and three elections to reach this place, I feel a real privilege...
Duncan Hames | 510 c491-3 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to make my maiden speech so early in th...
Charlotte Leslie | 510 c499-500 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to make my maiden speech. I shall keep it short, given...
Lord Barwell | 510 c502-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for this opportunity to deliver my maiden speech as the new Member of Parliament for C...
Baroness Berger | 510 c516-9 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Stroud (Neil Carmichael) and all those who made their fascinating...
Cathy Jamieson | 510 c512-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to be given the opportunity to make my maiden speech in the House in such an important...
Paul Maynard | 510 c510-2 (Link to this contribution) It is a very great pleasure to be here today. It has been quite a couple of weeks for the town of Bl...
David Ward | 510 c519-21 (Link to this contribution) I praise the hon. Member for Liverpool, Wavertree (Luciana Berger) and all those who have made their...
Heather Wheeler | 510 c523-4 (Link to this contribution) I stand to make my maiden speech, which is a daunting task not least because my seat has been repres...
Paul Blomfield | 510 c524-6 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for South Derbyshire (Heather Wheeler) on her speech. It is a wonderf...
Lisa Nandy | 510 c521-3 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to address the House for the first time....
Valerie Vaz | 510 c528-30 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate all the new Members who have made their first speeches, as well as thank the old Memb...
Simon Wright | 510 c530-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to make my maiden speech. I am pleased ...
Gordon Henderson | 510 c534-6 (Link to this contribution) Mr Deputy Speaker, thank you for letting me make my maiden speech this evening. I congratulate all t...
Owen Smith | 510 c536-8 (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for calling me to make my maiden speech this evening. I wou...
Gavin Shuker | 510 c493-5 (Link to this contribution) Mr. Deputy Speaker, I thank you for calling me in this important debate on the Gracious Speech, and ...
Sarah Wollaston | 510 c495-6 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for letting me catch your eye when so many hon. Members wish to do th...
Neil Carmichael | 510 c514-6 (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much indeed for inviting me to speak, Mr Deputy Speaker. I have been very impressed w...
Speaker | 510 c478 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind the House that Mr Speaker has placed an eight-minute limit on Back-Bench speeches, w...
Lord Lansley | 510 c543-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a great privilege to be able to come to this Dispatch Box for the first time as Secretary of S...
Andy Burnham | 510 c545 (Link to this contribution) Just for the record, the report was not commissioned by me or by Ministers but by the former directo...
Lord Lansley | 510 c545-7 (Link to this contribution) Let me put it like this: I inherited a Department in which the report had been produced but not publ...
Hywel Williams | 510 c500-2 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Members for Wolverhampton North East (Emma Reynolds) and for Bristol North W...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 510 c505-6 (Link to this contribution) Let me begin by congratulating the hon. Member for Croydon Central (Gavin Barwell) on his maiden spe...
Speaker | 510 c519 (Link to this contribution) Order. That was a wonderful maiden speech, but I am afraid that the clock stops for no one in this p...
Bob Russell | 510 c506-8 (Link to this contribution) I have been here throughout the debate and there have been some excellent maiden speeches. I congrat...
Stephen Twigg | 510 c489-91 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon) on an excellent maiden speech. We look for...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 510 c482 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to be able to contribute to this debate. I am certainly seeing the benefits of the ...
Caroline Flint | 510 c482 (Link to this contribution) What are deprivation levels like in the hon. Gentleman's constituency? How much longer do people in ...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 510 c482-4 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady makes a valid point. The whole point is that we have the health formula to take ...
Meg Hillier | 510 c484-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to speak about a matter of vital importance to my constituents young and old....
Lord Gove | 510 c474-5 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman painted a devastating and damning picture of people who had been expecting ...
Ed Balls | 510 c475-8 (Link to this contribution) And the right hon. Gentleman is not the only one who can abolish quangos, but I have to say to him t...
Stephen Dorrell | 510 c478-80 (Link to this contribution) I listened with interest to the speech by the right hon. Member for Morley and Outwood (Ed Balls). H...
Ed Balls | 510 c474 (Link to this contribution) Yes. Back in February, we thought that it was one of the shadow Schools Minister's flights of fancy....
Adrian Bailey | 510 c474 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Building Schools for the Future programme is vital not only...
Ed Balls | 510 c473-4 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to get into robust debates and look forward to seeing the hon. Gentleman defend his coali...
Ed Balls | 510 c473 (Link to this contribution) But I asked whether the funding for schools, Sure Start and 16-to-19 education would be guaranteed t...
Bob Russell | 510 c473 (Link to this contribution) The shadow Secretary of State mentioned all the good things that new Labour had done for children, b...
Ed Balls | 510 c471-3 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the right hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Michael Gove) on his new role as Secretary of...
Lord Gove | 510 c473 (Link to this contribution) I know that the right hon. Gentleman may have been otherwise engaged during Prime Minister's questio...
Sammy Wilson | 510 c469 (Link to this contribution) I support the outline that the right hon. Gentleman has given for freedoms for schools, but how will...
Lord Gove | 510 c469-71 (Link to this contribution) I have a great deal of sympathy with the hon. Gentleman. I know, of course, that there is a separate...
Lord Gove | 510 c469 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that the right hon. Gentleman believes that the first responsibility of the Secretary...
Lord Gove | 510 c468 (Link to this contribution) Once again, my hon. Friend makes the sort of constructive contribution that I know will make our enc...
Lindsay Roy | 510 c468 (Link to this contribution) Apart from outstanding schools, special needs schools and some failing schools, what are the criteri...
Lord Gove | 510 c468-9 (Link to this contribution) Schools must demonstrate that the acquisition of the freedoms will help drive attainment for childre...
Kevin Barron | 510 c469 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the right hon. Gentleman to the Dispatch Box. He will know that the last Conservative Gove...
Lindsay Roy | 510 c466 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Secretary of State on his appointment to a very challenging Cabinet post—it is be...
Lord Gove | 510 c465-6 (Link to this contribution) As I am sure the Secretary of State, the right hon. Member for Morley and Outwood, knows—[Interrupti...
David Ward | 510 c467 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State acknowledge that it is dangerous, and certainly misleading, to use terms...
Lord Gove | 510 c466-7 (Link to this contribution) That was a beautifully read question from the hon. Gentleman. As we know, he is a former headmaster ...
Bob Russell | 510 c468 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State consider that the rush for freedom, as he would describe it, is perhaps ...
Lord Gove | 510 c468 (Link to this contribution) I take my hon. Friend's point that deprivation matters, which is why we have secured a partnership a...
Ed Balls | 510 c465 (Link to this contribution) I remind the right hon. Gentleman that it is he who is now the Secretary of State, not I, and theref...
Lord Gove | 510 c465 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his kind advice, but the one thing he has not done in ...
Barry Sheerman | 510 c464-5 (Link to this contribution) I rise to try to educate the right hon. Gentleman. As he is very well versed in educational matters,...
Lord Gove | 510 c465 (Link to this contribution) Some do, but many do not. It is precisely because the Department pays the fees for so many teachers—...
Speaker | 510 c465 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am very sorry to interrupt the flow of the eloquence of the Secretary of State, but may I j...
Lord Gove | 510 c462-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for another constructive contribution. It is true that as I listened to it, t...
Lord Gove | 510 c464 (Link to this contribution) I have asked officials to calculate exactly how much we will save. [Interruption.] Well, we will bri...
Ed Balls | 510 c464 (Link to this contribution) Just for the record, can the right hon. Gentleman tell us how much he will save for the public purse...
Lord Gove | 510 c464 (Link to this contribution) I have great respect for the right hon. Gentleman, but I must point out to him that £36.50 per teach...
Lord Blunkett | 510 c464 (Link to this contribution) There may well be an argument about the role of the GTCE, especially in respect of the example the r...
Lord Gove | 510 c462 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend served in a distinguished way on the Select Committee that deals with these matters, ...
Bob Russell | 510 c462 (Link to this contribution) In the spirit of an holistic approach to education and health, may I ask the Secretary of State to l...
Lord Gove | 510 c461 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for making the point, as I was arguing, that other countri...
Graham Stuart | 510 c461 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend and congratulate him on his new post. The single most importan...
Stewart Hosie | 510 c460 (Link to this contribution) The Education Secretary is right about the level of debt that the Labour party left behind: £1 trill...
Lord Gove | 510 c460 (Link to this contribution) Lots of teachers are asking what the purpose of the GTCE is; they have been asking that question for...
Lord Blunkett | 510 c461 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way, and I congratulate him. In suggesting that...
Lord Gove | 510 c460 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman answers his own question: the Labour party did leave chaos and mayhem, and the to...
Meg Hillier | 510 c459 (Link to this contribution) In the right hon. Gentleman's desire to be sensible about money, which we would all want to see, wil...
Lord Gove | 510 c459 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the hon. Lady's commitment to fighting child poverty, both in her role as a Ministe...
Chris Leslie | 510 c459 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has been talking about protecting front-line spending in education. Can he co...
Lord Gove | 510 c459 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more. School transport is covered by the revenue support grant in almost all circu...
Ed Balls | 510 c458 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his kind words. Before the interventions started, he c...
Lord Gove | 510 c455 (Link to this contribution) It is a great honour to be asked to speak in support of the Gracious Speech this afternoon. As the r...
Bob Russell | 510 c455 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Lord Gove | 510 c455-6 (Link to this contribution) In due course. This is a progressive programme and, as I am sure my hon. Friend the Member for Colch...
David Wright | 510 c456 (Link to this contribution) On the subject of negotiations with the Treasury, can the Secretary of State tell us what negotiatio...
Jim Cunningham | 510 c458 (Link to this contribution) Can the right hon. Gentleman comment on the closure of BECTA, the British Educational Communications...
Lord Gove | 510 c457-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her question. I know that in her previous incarnation, in the Chi...
Kate Green | 510 c457 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State confirm that he is aware of some of the successful pilots that have been...
Lord Gove | 510 c457 (Link to this contribution) I know how committed my hon. Friend is to the education of children in Colchester and, indeed, to th...
Bob Russell | 510 c457 (Link to this contribution) Will any revenue and capital funding for the so-called free schools come from existing education bud...
Lord Gove | 510 c457 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a passionate case, and I know that Leicestershire is one of the F40 local autho...
David Tredinnick | 510 c457 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is setting out his stall eloquently and is being generous in his remarks. He me...
Lord Gove | 510 c457 (Link to this contribution) We will seek to deliver at every stage. I am delighted that the hon. Gentleman is in his place and t...
Kevin Barron | 510 c480-1 (Link to this contribution) Mr Kevin Barron (Rother Valley) (Lab): I start by saying that I intervened on the Secretary of State...
Andy Burnham | 510 c539-43 (Link to this contribution) What a great note on which to end. We are sure that will come to pass. I begin by congratulating th...
Lord Gove | 510 c458 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. He, too, is a dedicated fighter for his constituency, a...
Barry Sheerman | 510 c460 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman might be having a bonfire of the bureaucracies, but will he acknowledge tha...
Lord Gove | 510 c458 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman, I am sure with admirable zeal, wants to look into the crystal ball and fin...
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Disability Curriculum Closures Hospitals Health services Finance Education General Teaching Council NHS Public expenditure Pupils Waiting lists Standards Schools Teaching methods Department for Education Building schools for the future programme Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency British Educational Communications and Technology Agency Pupil premium
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