Queen's Park and Maida Vale
LabourOverall, across health & social care this Parliament
Alive and kicking!
Ranks 34th of 1273 MPs and peers who have spoken on health or care this Parliament — top 3%. 94 contributions since 2024-12-05.
“…As part of the Government’s reforms to SEND—special educational needs and disabilities—we are proposing the introduction of new specialist provision packages. Those will be developed by a national independent panel and will set out the broad range of provision we expect to be available in every community.”
Draft Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 (Establishment of Schools) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026 · 2026-06-30 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…n area that we are heavily investing in, with £4 billion going into early intervention to support children with special educational needs and disabilities. We will be consulting on how we fund special educational needs and the formula in the future, and I would be happy to discuss that.…”
SEND: Improvement · 2026-06-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…the amazing work going on with speech and language therapists in schools has seen a more than 80% reduction in waiting lists for children. We are really excited about the opportunity to bring these vital experts—specialist teachers, speech and language therapists and many others—directly into schools, and as we have h…”
SEND: Improvement · 2026-06-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“Through the national consultation and local special educational needs and disabilities reform plans, we are ensuring that multi-academy trusts play a key role in SEND reforms.”
SEND Improvement Plans: Multi-academy Trusts · 2026-06-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Our SEND reforms are about putting early intervention in place, supporting children at the earliest possible point, and transforming the system so that parents no longer have to battle to get their children the support they need.…”
Topical Questions · 2026-06-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
“We are committed to prioritising early intervention and making major increases in investment in SEND, investing £4 billion more over three years. That includes £1.8 billion so that every community has experts on hand, £1.6 billion to settings for early intervention and over £200 million to train every teacher.”
SEND Provision: Finance · 2026-06-22 · Read on Hansard ↗
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