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The Secretary of State for Education, the Rt Hon Bridget Phillipson MP made a statement to the Commons on Wednesday 2 April 2025  to announce £37 million for 300 primary schools to open and expand nurseries. I am delighted that Busill Jones Primary in Bloxwich is one of the 300 schools that have been granted

North Walsall Primary Academy in Blakenall, has around 250 students from Nursery to Year 6. Year 5 and Year 6 with Head of the Academy Sabrina Khera (pictured) visited the Education Centre on 2 April and were given the background to how Parliament works. It was great to see how the children  understood the passage of the

On 1 April 2025 the Bill had its at Second Reading in the Commons. The Bill was initially introduced in the House of Lords on 4 September 2024 and first read in the Commons on 13 March 2025.  On leaving the EU, the UK set up an independent regime for a product safety and metrology

Since leaving the EU, the legal framework set out in the Agricultural Act 2020 sought to phase out annual payments under the Basic Payments Scheme (BPS) over a seven-year period until 2027, replacing the BPS with delinked payments that are not based on the size of land owned by an individual. These Regulations continue the

On 31 March 2025 the Commons considered the Bill at Third Reading. The Bill was initially introduced in the House of Lords on 9 October 2024 and first read in the Commons on 12 February 2025.  The Bill will help to introduce Skills England, a new Arm’s Length Body of the Department for Education that