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Commons Chamber
Adult and Further Education - Wed 05 Jul 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Flick Drummond (CON - Meon Valley) general qualifications because they do not cover the same subjects. - Speech Link
2: Robin Walker (CON - Worcester) The concern of the Committee is not that we do not believe in pursuing high-quality and high-value qualifications - Speech Link
3: John McDonnell (LAB - Hayes and Harlington) At the moment, the going rate is not being paid in colleges, because the colleges do not have the funding - Speech Link
4: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) That is a dangerous road, because I do not want to have two-tier qualifications: some for the disadvantaged - Speech Link
5: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) There are new qualifications that can be developed so that those who do not pass will be able to do some - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 12 Jun 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Gillian Keegan (CON - Chichester) of teachers and the work they do, and being affordable and not exacerbating inflation. - Speech Link
2: Gillian Keegan (CON - Chichester) I do not think that anybody in this House doubts my support for apprenticeships—they were my golden ticket - Speech Link
3: Jake Berry (CON - Rossendale and Darwen) The estate is not fit for purpose, and I hope that when the next round of funding happens, my right hon - Speech Link
4: Mohammad Yasin (LAB - Bedford) What recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of funding for schools. - Speech Link
5: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) the service that they have paid for with their student loan. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
BTEC Qualifications - Mon 18 Jul 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Marsha De Cordova (LAB - Battersea) The petition, entitled “Protect student choice: do not withdraw funding for BTEC qualifications”, aims - Speech Link
2: Marsha De Cordova (LAB - Battersea) why BTEC qualifications must make way for them. - Speech Link
3: Marsha De Cordova (LAB - Battersea) Will she guarantee that funding will not be removed for any BTEC qualifications unless an impartial, - Speech Link
4: Vicky Foxcroft (LAB - Lewisham, Deptford) As a result, funding for the majority of BTEC qualifications will be removed. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]
Consideration of Commons amendments - Thu 24 Mar 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) These include delaying the removal of funding for technical educational qualifications that overlap with - Speech Link
2: None most 16 to 19 year-olds, our reforms do not mean we are replacing all applied general qualifications - Speech Link
3: Lord Blunkett (LAB - Life peer) I do not believe that for a minute. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LDEM - Life peer) If choice and competition are good for GCSE and A-levels, why not for T-levels? - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)
Committee stages: 4th Sitting - Thu 02 Dec 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Tahir Ali (LAB - Birmingham, Hall Green) The BTEC is not a brand; it is a qualification achieved by those who do not want to pursue an academic - Speech Link
2: Andrew Gwynne (LAB - Denton and Reddish) not throw the baby out with the bathwater.We must ensure that we do not undermine opportunities for - Speech Link
3: Alex Burghart (CON - Brentwood and Ongar) High-level criteria for the removal of funding for technical qualifications that overlap with T-levels - Speech Link
4: Lia Nici (CON - Great Grimsby) not the disaster that it is being portrayed as for the sake of headlines.There is a reason we do not - Speech Link
5: None I do not blame the Government for that—when new qualifications are introduced there is a lot to learn - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Mon 15 Nov 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Marie Rimmer (LAB - St Helens South and Whiston) This is all about ending an opportunity for young people whom the Government do not value as much. - Speech Link
2: Munira Wilson (LDEM - Twickenham) Withdrawing funding sooner would narrow choice and force students into unsuitable qualifications. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) Education must not withdraw funding for BTEC qualifications, as currently planned, until there is strong - Speech Link
4: Fleur Anderson (LAB - Putney) South Thames College has 4,500 students, but 2,000 would not have the qualifications for T-levels. - Speech Link
5: Alex Burghart (CON - Brentwood and Ongar) for adults who do not already have a GCSE pass is already available. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]
Report stage - Tue 12 Oct 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Adonis (LAB - Life peer) They do not need any additional funding powers. - Speech Link
2: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (LAB - Life peer) a provider, or a student or prospective student for that matter, to challenge an IfATE decision to withdraw - Speech Link
3: None for qualifications”. - Speech Link
4: Lord Willetts (CON - Life peer) for the qualifications that they do as seriously as we would treat a decision to remove the funding - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Berridge (CON - Life peer) I am grateful for the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Young, about what we do and do not put in a Bill - Speech Link
2: Lord Addington (LDEM - Excepted Hereditary) We do not really know what it is for or what it is getting in. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) This includes training and assessment for apprenticeships for employers that do and do not pay the levy - Speech Link
4: Lord Blunkett (LAB - Life peer) If there is not a choice, you do not have one. - Speech Link
5: Lord Addington (LDEM - Excepted Hereditary) It would not hurt to have it in there.I do not know whether the Government are in the mood for accepting - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Tue 15 Jun 2021
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Storey (LDEM - Life peer) Should we not be making funding available for these learners? - Speech Link
2: Lord Willetts (CON - Life peer) We do need a better funding arrangement for levels 4 and 5. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Leeds (Bishops - Bishops) The funding regime does not provide support for students in FE who do not have EHCPs to anything like - Speech Link
4: Lord Shipley (LDEM - Life peer) Funding per student has been lower in FE for too long. - Speech Link
5: Lord Blunkett (LAB - Life peer) These are not qualifications for life any more. There are no jobs for life. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) to put financial penalties on universities and student unions for not wanting to listen to speakers - Speech Link
2: Viscount Goschen (CON - Excepted Hereditary) to land they do not own and do not have permission to be on, to set up camp, with associated very often - Speech Link
3: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) They are so for a number of reasons, not least because, as a society, we should not have to make a choice - Speech Link
4: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (LAB - Life peer) Dulwich, who is not in his place, to do more for victims. - Speech Link