Bridget Phillipson

Bridget Phillipson

Rt Hon Bridget Phillipson MP

Labour
House of CommonsActive

Member since 3 July 2024

Recent Debate Contributions

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Teacher Recruitment

20/07/2025Commons

8 contributions
That was very shouty from the shadow Minister, and as per usual very negative about what we are seeing across education. We are turning around the pro...
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I would be very happy to do so. As the right hon. Gentleman just heard, we are seeing big increases in initial teacher training acceptances in many of...
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SEND Provision: Funding

20/07/2025Commons

6 contributions
As I said in response to the hon. Member for North Herefordshire (Ellie Chowns), children with SEND have a legal right to additional support. We will ...
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I can be clear that children with SEND have a legal right to additional support, and Labour will always protect that. I would say, however, that we al...
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Topical Questions

20/07/2025Commons

11 contributions
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for the work he has done in this area over many years and for the way he champions this cause here on behalf of his co...
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We have heard this afternoon from my hon. Friend and so many Members across the House about the urgent need to make improvements for children with SEN...
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That is critical, which is why we need to bring together healthcare, education, libraries, childminders and voluntary and community groups in that end...
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I agree with my hon. Friend. It is this Labour Government who will once again ensure that all our children are set up to succeed. We will build on the...
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Topical Questions

17/06/2025Commons

5 contributions
As the Home Secretary set out on Monday, anyone found to have been responsible for covering up or hiding vile crimes of child sexual abuse must and wi...
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The hon. Lady will know that the Home Secretary recently made an extensive statement to Parliament, setting out the actions that this Government will ...
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Educational Outcomes for Boys

17/06/2025Commons

5 contributions
My hon. Friend brings real expertise, and I listened carefully to what he had to say. We will consider those issues through the schools White Paper la...
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I join my hon. Friend in congratulating Billy and his family. Right across sport, we want to make sure that no one is held back by outdated stereotype...
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School-based Nurseries

15/06/2025Commons

9 contributions
I know that the Under-Secretary of State for Education, my hon. Friend the Member for Portsmouth South (Stephen Morgan), has been in touch with the ho...
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I too recently met the chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, and I will always be open to discussing the challenges faced by the sector; but le...
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We do need to think differently about the system that we have inherited from the Conservative party—one that Members from across the House recognise j...
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I agree that in areas where we are seeing space opening up in the schools estate, it is allowing us to do things like open more school-based nurseries...
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I can give that confirmation to my hon. Friend. I join him in paying tribute to the Holocaust Educational Trust for its work to shine a light on antis...
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I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that incredibly important issue that we, as a Government, take extremely seriously, because no student...
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Topical Questions

15/06/2025Commons

8 contributions
It is only through delivering a Labour Government in Scotland next year that we will get the change that the hon. Gentleman is seeking. I agree that S...
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In wider reform later this year through the schools White Paper—including to the SEND system—we will look at every way in which we can improve outcome...
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