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Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Thu 12 Jun 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Agnew of Oulton (Con - Life peer) Some 21% of these children achieved a formal GCSE qualification in maths and English—above grade C, in - Speech Link
2: Baroness Berridge (Con - Life peer) likely to pursue and succeed in A-levels, leading often to higher education. - Speech Link
3: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) He set up a steering committee of children in care in the local authority and he met with them once a - Speech Link
4: None need on a non-statutory basis in 2021. - Speech Link
5: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) Most children grow up in their own home with two parents, one parent, or a parent and a partner, and - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Non-Domestic Rating (Multipliers and Private Schools) Bill
Committee stage - Thu 27 Feb 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) I am more than happy to work with the Minister and the Government to find a way around this, so that - Speech Link
2: Lord Black of Brentwood (Con - Life peer) in trouble and has been for a long time. - Speech Link
3: Lord Thurlow (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Then I was off again two years later, and there was a different syllabus—and a different language in - Speech Link
4: Lord Moynihan (Con - Excepted Hereditary) , and sport provides the framework for a healthy mind in a healthy body. - Speech Link
5: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) The Government work with local authorities to support place planning and ensure there is capacity in - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Budget 2024 - Mon 11 Nov 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord O'Neill of Gatley (XB - Life peer) and, of course, debt.On a separate topic, fifthly and finally, and in contrast to widespread belief, - Speech Link
2: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con - Life peer) and from giving folk in genuine need a hand up and not a handout. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bilimoria (XB - Life peer) £1.6 billion, with a higher burden on the state sector and a drop in the number of international boarders - Speech Link
4: Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway (Lab - Life peer) a fairer, more prosperous Britain: getting people into work and with a better NHS, skills and education - Speech Link
5: Lord Shinkwin (Con - Life peer) an increase in its membership income by almost 50% between 2021 and June 2023, and why a corresponding - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Tue 14 Nov 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Knight of Weymouth (Lab - Life peer) art in schools at GCSE and the decline in design and technology is now at a critical point for the long-term - Speech Link
2: Lord Bilimoria (XB - Life peer) Fast forward to COP 26 in Glasgow and that railway department, in conjunction with Siemens, a German - Speech Link
3: Earl of Devon (XB - Excepted Hereditary) rights holders and employees—and to ensure that AI is developed in a manner consistent with accepted - Speech Link
4: Lord Hampton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Someone with a disability from a working-class background is three times less likely to work in a creative - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Initial Teacher Training - Thu 18 Nov 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Donaghy (LAB - Life peer) cost, and a realistic assessment of what schools can offer in placements and mentoring, given their current - Speech Link
2: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) In this context, there is a growing realisation that the recent small increase in art and design GCSE - Speech Link
3: Lord Kirkham (CON - Life peer) to receive training, not just in their first year of work but in years 2 and 3 as well, together with - Speech Link
4: Viscount Hanworth (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) It became possible to obtain QTS in the course of a three-year degree that had a component of teacher - Speech Link
5: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) Certainly, in my conversations with schools that are involved in initial teacher training and the teaching - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Creative Sector - Thu 04 Nov 2021
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Bassam of Brighton (LAB - Life peer) But over the period 2010 to 2020, there was a 37% decline in arts GCSE and a 30% decline in A-level entries - Speech Link
2: Lord Aberdare (CB - Excepted Hereditary) music GCSEs and A-levels, especially in state schools.Government has played an important role in helping - Speech Link
3: Lord Storey (LDEM - Life peer) of how pupils in secondary schools choose to take a GCSE and how well they will do in the following - Speech Link
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (CON - Life peer) As my noble friend Lord Vaizey said, this is a fantastic job, and one that comes with a big in-tray. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Thu 15 Jul 2021
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Addington (LDEM - Excepted Hereditary) moderate difficulty and who may well, with a little bit of help, find a place in training, are the group - Speech Link
2: Lord Flight (CON - Life peer) first created it in 2016 and the second extended it to T-levels in 2017—but there is still a complex - Speech Link
3: Lord Blunkett (LAB - Life peer) It arises, of course, from what has become a rather sterile debate about whether A-levels and T-levels - Speech Link
4: Lord Baker of Dorking (CON - Life peer) We are trying to make it work in UTCs, and we are still experimenting with it. - Speech Link
5: None We have been clear which qualifications, in addition to T-levels and A-levels, will be funded. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Tue 18 May 2021
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Green of Deddington (CB - Life peer) shown that high migration, combined with the higher birth rates in some immigrant communities—and a - Speech Link
2: Baroness Butler-Sloss (CB - Life peer) under 14, and a project in India to help 8,000 children in Mumbai. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chakrabarti (LAB - Life peer) It is like losing 11-nil in the FA Cup final and coming for the referee with a baseball bat. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bellingham (CON - Life peer) Eight years afterwards, in 2018, he was arrested in a dawn raid and has been charged with murder.Obviously - Speech Link
5: Lord Bach (LAB - Life peer) , and, of course, in the context of the gracious Speech, I want to speak a little about my experience - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions
1st reading: House of Commons - Tue 14 Mar 2017
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Maria Eagle (LAB - Garston and Halewood) no option in the entire borough for doing academic A-levels and must leave the borough in order to study - Speech Link
2: Angela Rayner (LAB - Ashton-under-Lyne) £40 million in trials.It is a similar story with the £500 million a year to deliver the new T-levels - Speech Link
3: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) As a former teacher in adult education schools and someone who has close knowledge of the work of the - Speech Link
4: Lindsay Hoyle (Speaker - Chorley) )(a)”.(35) In section 114 (cars, vans and related benefits), in subsection (2)—(a) in paragraph (a), - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 08 Mar 2017
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (LAB - Leeds West) low-paid work and low productivity, with one in five people now paid less than the living wage, and - Speech Link
2: Diana Johnson (LAB - Kingston upon Hull North) Of course we need a review and a long-term strategy for dealing with social care. - Speech Link
3: Kevin Foster (CON - Torbay) way as a degree, an A-level and a GCSE. - Speech Link
4: Suella Braverman (CON - Fareham) The fact that employment has risen from 70.2% to 74.6%, with a further two thirds of a million in work - Speech Link
5: David Lammy (LAB - Tottenham) It is unrealistic to expect people with a mortgage and kids to drop everything and do a university course - Speech Link