Oliver Dowden MP: written questions
4 Jul 2024–3 Jul 2025
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Written questions
Antisemitism: UniversitiesDepartment for EducationTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59383More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of StandWithUs UK's Voice of Students 2024 Report into antisemitism on UK university campuses, published on 7 May 2025.
Answer: Antisemitism has absolutely no place in universities or wider society. Universities must be places where all students feel safe, respected and able to thrive.Earlier this month, my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education brought together v...
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAntisemitism: UniversitiesDepartment for EducationTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59342More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of holding a public inquiry into antisemitism on university campuses.
Answer: Antisemitism has absolutely no place in universities or wider society. Universities must be places where all students feel safe, respected and able to thrive.Earlier this month, my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education brought together v...
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordAntisemitism: EducationDepartment for EducationTabled 12 Jun 2025AnsweredUIN 59341More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of implementing mandatory education on antisemitism in schools.
Answer: Schools and colleges are a place of protection, as well as education. There is no place for antisemitism in our society, and it is essential that Jewish students feel safe in education.The Holocaust is the only historic event which is compulsory within th...
Answered 20 Jun 2025
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: HertfordshireDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11010More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle disparities in per-head High Needs Funding between Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
Answer: Allocations of high needs funding for the 2025/26 financial year will be published as soon as possible now that overall budgets for next year have been announced. The department will take longer to consider changes to the funding formula that is used to a...
Answered 1 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: HertfordshireDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11009More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help tackle funding gaps for statutory SEND duties in Hertfordshire.
Answer: The department is providing schools with extra funding of almost £1.1 billion in the 2024/25 financial year, to support schools with overall costs, including the costs of supporting their pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Foll...
Answered 1 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordSpecial Educational Needs: HertfordshireDepartment for EducationTabled 24 Oct 2024AnsweredUIN 11008More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve the provision of SEND services in Hertfordshire.
Answer: This government is committed to providing the necessary support to improve the experiences for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and their families. We are committed to taking a community-wide approach, impro...
Answered 1 Nov 2024
Original Parliament recordUniversities: AntisemitismDepartment for EducationTabled 26 Jul 2024AnsweredUIN 1928More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to tackle anti-Semitism on university campuses.
Answer: As autonomous institutions, universities are responsible for tackling antisemitism on campus and should have processes in place to deal with unlawful abuse and harassment. Universities, as well as Jewish groups and other stakeholders, have told us that th...
Answered 5 Aug 2024
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