Education Committee
4 November 2026
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Education Committee House of Commons
Follow its sittings00:05 - 00:27
Speaker 3
Order. Welcome to our oral evidence session of the Education Select Committee this morning. This morning we are hearing from the Secretary of State, Lucy Powell, in her first appearance in front of the Education Select Committee. Welcome, Secretary of State. We're glad to have you with us this morning.
I think you'd like to make a short opening statement, if that's okay?
00:27 - 01:16
Speaker 2
Yes, if that's okay. Thanks so much, Chair. Well, thank you very much for having me. I'm really delighted to be here. As a former member of this committee, some of my best years in Parliament, I have to say, I have a huge amount of respect for you as the Chair and for the every member of the committee and the work that you do, and the reports that you produce.
I know what work goes into those and I've studied them closely. I'm absolutely delighted to be the Education Secretary. I just want to pay tribute to my predecessor, Bridget Phillipson, as well, who did huge amount of work in terms of child poverty and the early years. And we saw some of the results of that recently with the good level of development improvements as well, pre- pre-school. I've been really clear what my priorities are having been in and around education for a while.
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