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Lords Chamber
Schools Bill [HL]
Report stage: Part 1 - Mon 18 Jul 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: None The Government’s own report on human rights says that Articles 8 and 9 are under threat. - Speech Link
2: None There are other amendments that I want to speak to, but I will stick with Amendment 64B for now and tie - Speech Link
3: None For many home-educated children, finding an exam centre is not a problem. - Speech Link
4: Lord Wei (CON - Life peer) human rights obligations—bear in mind that concerns are raised in that report that Articles 8 and 9 - Speech Link
5: Lord Storey (LDEM - Life peer) It has not been reviewed for 10 years and we need to do thatfor all the reasons we have heard from the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Schools Bill [HL]
Committee stage: Part 1 - Mon 20 Jun 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: None , the children went to different parents and heard, in a 10-minute question and answer session, about - Speech Link
2: Lord Shipley (LDEM - Life peer) High needs amounts to £9 billion a year, £300 million of which goes to colleges to support some 30,000 - Speech Link
3: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (LAB - Life peer) see that, currently, they achieve an entire GCSE grade less than hearing pupils and have done so for - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: None This is something that the further education sector has also asked for: an overall 10-year education - Speech Link
2: Lord Ravensdale (CB - Excepted Hereditary) every year between now and 2050 to meet our net zero goals. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LDEM - Life peer) GCSE English and maths are academic and are absolutely not appropriate for a whole load of people whose - Speech Link
4: None hold a GCSE grade 4 to 9 in their English and maths. - Speech Link
5: None We learned that T-levels are not remotely suitable for people who get GCSE grades of 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Mon 19 Jul 2021
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: None All small and medium-sized enterprises can now reserve funding for up to 10 new apprenticeship starts - Speech Link
2: Baroness Sherlock (LAB - Life peer) They conclude that“students are using Chegg for assessment and exam help frequently and in a way that - Speech Link
3: Lord Baker of Dorking (CON - Life peer) The amendment specifically provides for years 8 and 9, year 11, and year 13, which means that 13 and - Speech Link
4: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (LAB - Life peer) for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills in Wales. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Penn (CON - Life peer) We will not seek to amend its criteria in that way.To the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, the Department for - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Education (Environment and Sustainable Citizenship) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 16 Jul 2021
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fookes (CON - Life peer) It has the added value that, for children in particular, one starts from something with which they are - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) But that is in gaps between the essential cramming for exam preparation. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Young of Old Scone (LAB - Life peer) for all children throughout the year. - Speech Link
4: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (LAB - Life peer) The proposed curriculum requirements that are now emerging, and will be implemented in this, next and - Speech Link
5: Baroness Berridge (CON - Life peer) in the take-up of GCSE geography. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (LAB - Life peer) and employers.There should also be an exploration of a national 10-year education and skills strategy - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hayman (CB - Life peer) are accepted by the Government in the 10-point plan, in all their documentation and in the words of - Speech Link
3: Baroness Berridge (CON - Life peer) the exam boards, in line with content set by government, the content of the majority of publicly funded - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Tue 06 Jul 2021
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LDEM - Life peer) problems with GCSE English and maths which, for so many skill areas, are not essential. - Speech Link
2: None Liverpool City Region now gets £40 million a year. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (LAB - Life peer) Although we aim to amend the Bill to ensure that LSIPs are produced in partnership with providers, as - Speech Link
4: Lord Liddle (LAB - Life peer) the people available with the skills to do this job within the five-year, 10-year or 15-year timeframe - Speech Link
5: Lord Oates (LDEM - Life peer) their 10-point plan for a green industrial revolution and the year when the Government have committed - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (LAB - Life peer) 10-year national strategy for education and skills to deliver on a wide policy agenda. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Greengross (CB - Life peer) It is also likely that many children born this year will eventually end up in careers that, at present - Speech Link
3: Lord Bilimoria (CB - Life peer) The CBI, of which I am president, in its Learning for Life report found that, by 2030, nine in 10 people - Speech Link
4: Lord Lucas (CON - Excepted Hereditary) that matter but what our children are and could become. - Speech Link
5: Lord Rooker (LAB - Life peer) , after a 10-year gap, post-graduate work—can be more transformative. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
A Brighter Future for the Next Generation - Thu 13 May 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Gavin Williamson (CON - South Staffordshire) That is why we are looking at bringing forward a natural history GCSE, which will be very important in - Speech Link
2: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) up heat pump production and installation to the 600,000 installations a year that the 10-point plan - Speech Link
3: Ian Lavery (LAB - Wansbeck) More than one in 10—about 13,000—north-east children who are currently eligible for free school meals - Speech Link
4: Helen Hayes (LAB - Dulwich and West Norwood) I met this morning with year 10 students at the Norwood School in my constituency, who asked for urgent - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Coronavirus Bill
2nd reading (Hansard continued) - Tue 24 Mar 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord O'Shaughnessy (CON - Life peer) Clause 10 provides indemnity for those in the NHS and care systems who are moved on to Covid-19 work. - Speech Link
2: Lord Adonis (LAB - Life peer) and in sixth forms for students who will not be able to go through the proper exam systems, and so on - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) They have not had the new grant of £5,000 a year that is coming in for students starting now. - Speech Link