Oral questions and debates

2025

• 11 November 2025 
  Backbench debate: On support for dyslexic pupils at school. Full brief here
• 4 June 2025 Lord Addington
  Debate: Special Educational Needs: Dyscalculia 
  Full transcript here
  Dyscalculia brief here

2024

• 24 July 2024 Olivia Blake
  Debate: Education and opportunity. Full transcript here
• 16 May 2024 Lord Addington
  Debate: People with Disabilities: Access to Services - Motion to Take Note. Full transcript here
• 23 April 2024 Matthew Hancock
  Debate: Neurodivergent Conditions (Screening and Teacher Training)
  Motion for leave to bring in a Bill (Standing Order No. 23) Full transcript here
• 15 April 2024 Lord Addington
  Oral Question:To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that, when meeting the needs of those with special educational needs in the school and college system, a legacy of training and knowledge is retained within those institutions. Full transcript here
• 19 March 2024 Lord Addington
  Oral Question: My Lords, will the Minister comment on a meeting I had earlier today, in which representatives of different ethnic groups were saying that it is much more difficult for them to get diagnosed with dyslexia? This is because the teachers do not know how to pick out dyslexia from things such as second-language problems, and the fact that those parent groups do not know that diagnosis and assessment is for them and not just for white boys. Full transcript here
• 22 Feb 2024 Lord Sterling of Plaistow
  Debate: Pupil Mental Health, Well-Being and Development Full transcript here
• 22 Feb 2024 Lord Storey
  Debate: Pupil Mental Health, Well-Being and Development Full transcript here
• 12 Feb 2024 Lord Addington
  Oral Question: To ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to ensure that all schools have the capacity to identify and implement a plan of support for the most commonly occurring special educational needs, including Dyslexia, ADHD, Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia, and Autism. Full transcript here
• 12 Feb 2024 Baroness Bull
  Dyscalculia. Full transcript here