Josh MacAlister

Labour — Whitehaven and Workington

Government roles held

Written answers given

• I am delighted to come to the House today to welcome a proper phone ban in place for schools. The Government have finall
• No, you didn’t!
• I thank the Minister for his statement, and welcome the announcement of strengthened guidance on mobile phones in school
• I very much welcome this change of heart from the Government. There is no place for phones during the school day, and st
• Parents across Bracknell Forest will welcome the strengthened guidance on mobile phones in schools and the fact that the
• I presume it is too much to expect a Government Minister to admit that the shadow Education Secretary was right to propo
• Speaking as a former teacher and, indeed, as a parent, I warmly welcome this announcement from the Minister. Our schools
• I am proud to say that we are ahead of the game in Tunbridge Wells. When the Government failed to pass the legislation o
• I thank the Minister for the announcement of this updated guidance. I still remember not long ago the look of embarrassm
• On the conversation about exclusions, may I make the case for young carers not to be excluded from the freedom to learn
• I thank the Minister for his statement. I stopped being a teacher in 2020. I am pretty certain that kids had smartphones
• I welcome the steps the Minister outlined to ensure phones will no longer be a distraction in the classroom, but for man
• Will my hon. Friend join me in congratulating the staff, students and governors at Stoke Park secondary school, who have
• I have had over 500 emails from constituents calling for a smartphone-free childhood, so I welcome today’s announcement.
• I welcome the Minister’s statement. On Friday, I visited Lancaster high school in my constituency; under the leadership
• I thank the Minister for his statement and the way that he has addressed other issues around edtech, which are also very
• Will the Minister congratulate King Edward VI high school in my constituency, which has rolled out a phone-free school p
• It was great to see local schools like the Priory and Hitchin Boys’ and Girls’ lead the way on keeping phones out of the
• I welcome the Minister’s statement on smart glasses, which I profoundly believe should be banned from all public buildin
• I welcome the thought that has gone into this new guidance for schools on phones, but young people have told me that the
• I have been inundated with hundreds of messages from parents and my local Smartphone Free Childhood group, who are deepl
• I thank the Minister for his statement, which answers the call from many school leaders in my constituency for the Gover
• The Stanway school in Colchester gained national attention through a Channel 4 documentary called “Swiped: The School Th
• Say yes.
• I thank the Minister for his strong and consistent leadership on this issue over the last two years. I totally agree tha
• I welcome these measures. Parents and teachers have called for them. This is the right thing to do. The Facebook whistl
• In Cheshire, we are leading the way on Esther Ghey’s phone-free education campaign, with 92% of state high schools in th
• In 1943, Churchill reportedly said: “We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us.” —[ Official Report

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