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

Mentions:
1: Lord Knight of Weymouth (Lab - Life peer) just 23% of its overall target in 2021-22, and it is getting worse. - Speech Link
2: Lord Rees of Ludlow (XB - Life peer) levels are poor compared to nations in the Far East and northern Europe. - Speech Link
3: 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
4: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) , proscribed as such in the United Kingdom since 2021 and by a number of other Governments and international - 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: Baroness Coussins (CB - Life peer) Lower GCSE take-up correlates with regions of poor productivity and low skill levels. - 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


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Bassam of Brighton (LAB - Life peer) This work generates job satisfaction and, of course, higher pay. - Speech Link
2: Lord Cashman (LAB - Life peer) Quite rightly, Equity wants to abolish the minimum income floor and replace it with a meaningful alternative - Speech Link
3: Lord Aberdare (CB - Excepted Hereditary) GCSEs in dance, drama and music, and 17,500 for A-levels. - Speech Link
4: 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


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) The trailblazers will, of course, start work very soon and I look forward to being able to share with - Speech Link
2: 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
3: Lord Addington (LDEM - Excepted Hereditary) Can we have some assurance that there is no government thinking that T-levels will be used to replace - Speech Link
4: Baroness Berridge (CON - Life peer) more than 12,000 qualifications, of which only about 800 are GCSE and A-level. - Speech Link
5: Lord Lucas (CON - Excepted Hereditary) course management, will have an immense network of alumni with whom it will work to improve the course - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Manningham-Buller (CB - Life peer) do we need it, and what are we talking about in 2021? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coussins (CB - Life peer) You can get on to this list just by having a GCSE pass or a low-level two-week foundation course, or - Speech Link
3: Viscount Goschen (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Of course, I welcome the work of the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau and Action Fraud, but it is clear - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) cancel culture is a real and present danger, but I have chosen to speak today because if the Government - Speech Link
5: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (LAB - Life peer) That was thanks to a wonderful teacher at a school I went to, Franz Busuttil.I agree with the noble Earl - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: 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
2: Edward Leigh (CON - Gainsborough) and replace the outdated Barnett formula. - Speech Link
3: Nick Thomas-Symonds (LAB - Torfaen) qualifications, and with the idea of T-levels. - Speech Link
4: Julie Cooper (LAB - Burnley) pupils with special educational needs and disabilities losing vital support and teacher and school staff - Speech Link
5: 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


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

Mentions:
1: Stewart Hosie (SNP - Dundee East) He spoke about an increase to the minimum wage, which is of course welcome, but ignored the assessment - Speech Link
2: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) By 2021, consumer borrowing will reach 153% of household income, and I have a problem with the Government - Speech Link
3: Nigel Mills (CON - Amber Valley) to £802 billion in 2021-22. - Speech Link
4: 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
5: Kevin Foster (CON - Torbay) way as a degree, an A-level and a GCSE. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Strategic Defence and Security Review - Fri 12 Nov 2010
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Craig of Radley (CB - Life peer) back in 2008 to replace the overstretched Harriers in theatre with Tornados by mid-2009 was soundly - Speech Link
2: Baroness Ritchie of Brompton (CON - Life peer) No one would want a child in the middle of the second year of their GCSE course to have to move school - Speech Link
3: Lord Liddle (LAB - Life peer) intervention did work in Kuwait in the early 1990s and, with eventual US support, in Bosnia and then - Speech Link
4: Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer (LDEM - Life peer) in this work and a non-nuclear state. - Speech Link
5: Lord Hunt of Chesterton (LAB - Life peer) As a former school governor, I heard from the head teacher that ex-service people with teaching qualifications - Speech Link