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Leasehold Reform Update – Labour Delivering on Its Promise

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23 February 2026

Supporting Constituents in Cheetham

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26 January 2026

£20 Million Secured for Clayton and Newton Heath

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23 January 2026

What’s On for Kids This Summer in Manchester and Failsworth

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04 August 2025

Lucy Powell joins GMP to seize and crush vehicles for criminal activity

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22 April 2025

Free and Fun Things to Do with your Kids This Easter Holiday in Manchester and Failsworth

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03 April 2025

Education and Skills Reform

Commons debates

First, I thank my hon. Friend for all her leadership and contributions to this very important debate, which I know means a lot to her personally. I look forward to meeting her and discussing it...

Education and Skills Reform

Commons debates

My hon. Friend is absolutely right that the challenges faced in many of our coastal communities are particularly deep, and that is why Mission Coastal is such an important initiative. The Schools...

Education and Skills Reform

Commons debates

I recently met and made a video with a student at Alstom who had attended Crewe UTC. UTCs have provided a pathway for some young people to start apprenticeships, to go on to other studies, or to...

Education and Skills Reform

Commons debates

I thank my hon. Friend for all the championing she has done on those issues in the time that she has been here—I am sure that her results day was not as long ago as mine was. She is right...

Education and Skills Reform

Commons debates

I pay tribute to the hon. Lady for all her work, engagement and leadership on these issues, which I know it has been much appreciated by the Schools Minister, who has been leading many of those...

Education and Skills Reform

Commons debates

The Minister with responsibly for school estates, my hon. Friend the Member for Whitehaven and Workington (Josh MacAlister), who is sitting next to me on the Front Bench, will be happy to meet...

Education and Skills Reform

Commons debates

I hear what the hon. Gentleman is saying. I know my own hairdresser and her team really well—they do a great job on my hair. [Interruption.] Thank you. Indeed, the hairdressers here in the...

Education and Skills Reform

Commons debates

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The work placement requirement in the T-levels has been challenging, but that is now coming on stream and many more students are taking T-levels. We know the...

Education and Skills Reform

Commons debates

I thank the hon. Gentleman for asking about that. It was one of the first things I asked when taking office, because, as I represent a number of further education and sixth-form colleges in...

Education and Skills Reform

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Especially after my hon. Friend’s excellent question about Gravesham at Prime Minister’s questions today, I am really keen to visit. I thank her for her previous work as a science...

Education and Skills Reform

Commons debates

The hon. Lady raises a really good point and I am happy to join her in praising the staff of Summerwood school, which her son attends. This is about ensuring that the mainstream offer is also...

Education and Skills Reform

Commons debates

I thank my hon. Friend for all the teaching he did in his former career. He is absolutely right. Degree apprenticeships and apprenticeships are becoming increasingly popular. As with T-levels,...

Education and Skills Reform

Commons debates

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. Some groan every time the Prime Minister mentions it, but I have seen the transformation that has come from giving young people free bus passes in Greater...

Education and Skills Reform

Commons debates

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I was really concerned when I saw some of the growing gaps between regions in this year’s results, particularly the gap between the north-east and...

Education and Skills Reform

Commons debates

Oh, is he still a Member?

Education and Skills Reform

Commons debates

First, I thank the hon. Member for what he said about the approach we are taking on the endless cycle of resits. To be absolutely clear, every child has the right to resit an exam should they...

Education and Skills Reform

Commons debates

I thank my hon. Friend for those very kind words; I am sure I will get up to Burnley very soon to visit a school with him—I would be happy to do so. He is absolutely right that there is a...

Education and Skills Reform

Commons debates

I actually agree with the right hon. and learned Lady. I did not just mention them a minute ago; I mentioned in my opening statement the white working class commission, which has done valuable...

Education and Skills Reform

Commons debates

I do want to pay tribute to teachers and school leaders right across the country. Almost my entire family are teachers and headteachers, so if I ever said anything like what my hon. Friend...

Education and Skills Reform

Commons debates

There are discrepancies—these things can be very postcode-specific—which we will be addressing. The hon. Member will know that at the moment, we are going through quite a robust...

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