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Al Pinkerton MP: speeches

4 Jul 2026–16 Oct 2026 · year in progress

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  • 14 Sept 2026 · Local Authority SEND Services · Hansard source
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    A great number of children across Surrey have been left without the special educational provision they need this year and a disproportionate number—64%—of those who require specialist autism provision live in the new West Surrey unitary authority area. Given Surrey county council’s historical failure to align provision with need, and with worrying reports that the SEND system is being allowed to collapse in Surrey’s final year of operation, will the Minister directly intervene to ensure that Department for Education capital investment prioritises the specialist autism places that West Surrey desperately needs? Will she meet me and the incoming leaders of West Surrey to see how that can be done?

  • 14 Sept 2026 · Local Authority SEND Services · Hansard source
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    18. What discussions her Department has had with local authorities on ensuring that SEND services accurately cater to levels of unmet need.

  • 7 Sept 2026 · Local Government Reorganisation · Hansard source
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    You wait a while and two Surrey questions come along at once! One of the potential unintended consequences of today’s announcement is to leave Surrey in the slightly discomfiting position of being in an experimental cohort with a sample size of one—the one county being reorganised under this legislation. We all know why: it is because the Conservative-run Surrey county council begged the Government to put it on this rollercoaster with no known destination and, as it turns out today, with legally slightly shonky rails. Do the legal concerns that the Secretary of State has expressed today also relate to Surrey? If Surrey is affected by those legal concerns, what faith should my residents have that this experiment is not going to come fully off the rails before 1 April 2027?

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Communities and local government3
Culture, media and sport1
Defence and foreign affairs2
Economy and business5
Education and skills1
Environment and energy1
Health and care1
Housing and planning4
Immigration and borders1
Justice and policing2
Unclassified1

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