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Lords Chamber
Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill
Committee stage - Thu 12 Feb 2026
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) It would require—I am looking for the right words—not just using that system but manual attention to - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) We are all on the same page in advocating for these well-qualified students, who should be eligible to - Speech Link
3: Lord Mohammed of Tinsley (LD - Life peer) We are not asking for tens of thousands of students to come here. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) I am most grateful for that.The amendment tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Kamall, seeks to require the - Speech Link
5: Lord Kamall (Con - Life peer) then refuse to commit to a date for commencement. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) It does so while continuing to allow internationally trained doctors to apply for and contribute to the - Speech Link
2: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) go back to develop services in their home countries. - Speech Link
3: Lord Duvall (Lab - Life peer) of Europe, in promoting best practice within local government in regional chambers.Closer to home, I - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Wed 28 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) that we extend the power for local authorities to require these children to attend school via the school - Speech Link
2: None In the same vein, it is reasonable and proportionate to require local authorities to make a home visit - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) if it refuses to grant permission for a child at a special school to be home-educated. - Speech Link
4: None In this amendment, I am asking for the local authority to enable local children to have access to exam - Speech Link
5: Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab - Life peer) The question is: why can we not require local authorities to find exam centres for all home-educated - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 27 Jan 2026
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Kieran Mullan (Con - Bexhill and Battle) I have spoken to students who worked really hard all the way through medical school to get the best exam - Speech Link
2: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) health to put home-grown talent at the front of the queue for medical training posts. - Speech Link
3: Jen Craft (Lab - Thurrock) health to put home-grown talent at the front of the queue for medical training posts. - Speech Link
4: Stuart Andrew (Con - Daventry) New clause 3 would require an annual report to Parliament on the number of international students at - Speech Link
5: Jessica Toale (Lab - Bournemouth West) progress their careers, and early-career psychiatrists forced to look for work far from home. - Speech Link
6: Karin Smyth (Lab - Bristol South) Home-grown doctors are more likely to work in the NHS for longer, and be better equipped to deliver healthcare - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Thu 18 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None enter pupils for public examinations), (c) sections 403 to 405 (Sex education),(d) sections 406 to 407 - Speech Link
2: None My Amendment 502YT would require all exam boards in secondary education to offer exams that are completed - Speech Link
3: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) The Human Rights Act is an essential tool for individuals to hold public bodies to account. - Speech Link
4: None by the public authority appear to him or her to outweigh the foreseeable impacts of closures for those - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Tue 16 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None The point I am trying to make is that a blunderbuss power for the local authority to intervene in these - Speech Link
2: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) to schools.The reason for the change in policy in the Bill to allow local authorities to open free schools - Speech Link
3: Baroness Evans of Bowes Park (Con - Life peer) to 19 university-backed maths school to proposals for new state sixth forms to support students from - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) for places, their value for money and the extent to which they provide a distinctive local offer. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) for the Government to accept our ban on smartphones in schools. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Tue 02 Sep 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: None Home-educated students can already access past papers to support exam preparation and receive help with - Speech Link
2: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) the point, was to understand how many home-educated children were taking public exams and how many were - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) access to past exam papers for home-educated children, as compared to children attending maintained schools - Speech Link
4: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) of exam centres for home-educated children? - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (First sitting)
Committee stage: 1st Sitting - Tue 21 Jan 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) What do you make of the power in the Bill for local authorities to refuse parents the right to withdraw - Speech Link
2: Darren Paffey (Lab - Southampton Itchen) Q I would like to ask about the requirement for local authorities to offer Staying Close. - Speech Link
3: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) It meant that local authorities had to plan for play and respond to play. - Speech Link
4: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) of that.Ruth Stanier: I want to stress that if it were to be mandatory for councils to pay for exam - Speech Link
5: Matt Bishop (Lab - Forest of Dean) Q With the requirement for registers of electively home-educated students, do you anticipate a sizeable - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Finance Bill
2nd reading - Wed 27 Nov 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) That funding is crucial for meeting our commitments to fixing the public finances.Secondly, in government - Speech Link
2: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) overall cost is to the Exchequer of compensating the public sector for the impact of NICs? - Speech Link
3: Samantha Niblett (Lab - South Derbyshire) ; we are home to sites for Toyota, Rolls-Royce and JCB. - Speech Link
4: Daisy Cooper (LD - St Albans) I commend her for her commitment to the NHS, and for her desire to be a role model for the next generation - Speech Link
5: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) Children who are already in public exam years, or the year before public exams, cannot have their education - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Robert Halfon (Con - Harlow) provide places for local students, who are 13% less likely to take a place at a university in Scotland - Speech Link
2: Robert Halfon (Con - Harlow) However, as I keep saying to him, our target was for over 600,000 international students a year, and - Speech Link
3: Gillian Keegan (Con - Chichester) Bexley’s apprenticeship event on 5 February will be a fantastic opportunity for local people to learn - Speech Link
4: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) Students at St Leonard’s School in Durham are working hard for their exams, but they are facing sustained - Speech Link
5: Paul Blomfield (Lab - Sheffield Central) Each year, students have to apply for the Turing international mobility scheme before the Easter deadline - Speech Link