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Grand Committee
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Committee stage - Wed 04 Feb 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Pinnock (LD - Life peer) to include, for example, a condition for the provision of necessary additional facilities, such as school - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) another one elsewhere in what was my constituency, in South Kilvington, also perilously close to a school - Speech Link
3: Baroness Griffin of Princethorpe (Lab - Life peer) , a free school, and worked in local live venues. - Speech Link
4: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) The school structure is largely in individual academies, and public parks are difficult and expensive - Speech Link
5: Baroness Freeman of Steventon (XB - Life peer) In the WHO’s report, A Conceptual Framework for Action on the Social Determinants of Health, education - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill
2nd reading - Wed 04 Feb 2026
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) Just days ago, the Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, announced a new strategy to grow our education - Speech Link
2: Lord Duvall (Lab - Life peer) I spent 10 years in a special school. I left school at 16 and went straight into the world of work. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) Malta has its own foundation school. - Speech Link
4: Lord Mohammed of Tinsley (LD - Life peer) I want to impress this issue on the Minister; it was raised by the Russell group medical school admissions - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Tue 03 Feb 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LD - Life peer) The Department for Education currently does not collect data on how admissions policies are applied in - Speech Link
2: None I can commit to the noble Baroness to update the statutory School Admissions Code so that school quality - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) in school time in particular for cultural and social education, but where are they going to find the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) we said, “Oh, there are lots of things that are more important than going to school or your education - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Crime and Policing Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Tue 20 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) In healthcare, education and financial services, regulators are able to require change. - Speech Link
2: None I cannot comment on or pre-empt the detail of the White Paper now, because that would be a breach of - Speech Link
3: Lord Young of Acton (Con - Life peer) school playground, that she smelled like fish. - Speech Link
4: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) It brings to mind the film “Minority Report” and the fictional idea of pre-crime. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Pension Schemes Bill
Committee stage - Wed 14 Jan 2026
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD - Life peer) Reviews, which is what these amendments ask for, are not admissions of failure; they are tools of good - Speech Link
2: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) We should not pre-empt the result of that valuation.The statutory cost control mechanism, which applies - Speech Link
3: Lord Fuller (Con - Life peer) There are maybe only a few per school, but they benefit from a Department for Education underwriting. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 13 Jan 2026
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) Without pre-empting Baroness Amos’s work, let me say that the hon. Lady is absolutely right. - Speech Link
2: Aphra Brandreth (Con - Chester South and Eddisbury) contacted by concerned doctors in Chester South and Eddisbury who, after five or six years at medical school - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) It stops them getting back into school and so on, but it is also a burden on all the other young people - Speech Link
4: Stuart Andrew (Con - Daventry) Hospice UK has said that without additional support, there will be“more unnecessary hospital admissions - Speech Link
5: Ashley Dalton (Lab - West Lancashire) meeting with Ministers from the Departments for Work and Pensions, for Business and Trade and for Education - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Vaccine Health Technology Assessment - Thu 08 Jan 2026
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Lab - Life peer) Vaccines keep people in work and children in school, and they enable carers to care. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Goudie (Lab - Life peer) School absence is not a trivial issue. - Speech Link
3: Lord Rennard (LD - Life peer) childhood vaccines, the current models of evaluation often miss the long-term benefits of improved school - Speech Link
4: Lord Kamall (Con - Life peer) more consistently, improves access to education and supports better educational outcomes overall, as - Speech Link
5: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) A key reason for this—the noble Lord, Lord Bethell, pre-empted this—is that the wider benefits cannot - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Nitrogen Reduction, Recycling and Reuse (Environment and Climate Change Committee Report) - Tue 06 Jan 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sheehan (LD - Life peer) schools that took part in our youth engagement programme: Ellesmere College, Mary Immaculate High School - Speech Link
2: Lord Krebs (XB - Life peer) Instead, it uses the pre-existing Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board’s Nutrient Management - Speech Link
3: Lord Jay of Ewelme (XB - Life peer) That is regularly brought home to those of us who attend the committee’s meetings with secondary school - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 10 Dec 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) Everyone should feel safe and valued in school. - Speech Link
2: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) There are now 400 fewer teachers since the Education Secretary came into office—[Interruption.] - Speech Link
3: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab - Suffolk Coastal) Trust school in Saxmundham, which closed its doors for the last time in 2024? - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Village Schools - Wed 10 Dec 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Manuela Perteghella (LD - Stratford-on-Avon) For many villages, the school is part of the fabric of rural life. - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) primary school whereby it has been able to provide small classes focusing on providing education to - Speech Link
3: Manuela Perteghella (LD - Stratford-on-Avon) I welcome the steps the Government have taken to increase the school budget, expand free school meals - Speech Link
4: Georgia Gould (Lab - Queen's Park and Maida Vale) places and manage the school estate efficiently. - Speech Link