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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 Butler of Brockwell (XB - Life peer) A report in 2021 by the charity GambleAware found that around 5% of loot-box purchases could generate - Speech Link
3: Lord Rees of Ludlow (XB - Life peer) levels are poor compared to nations in the Far East and northern Europe. - Speech Link
4: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) students taking GCSEs was just a third of that of male students. - Speech Link
5: 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


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 17 Apr 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Peter Aldous (CON - Waveney) as A-levels, to participate in this vital initiative and ensure that it is the game changer that will - Speech Link
2: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) We have a high uptake of arts GCSEs in our system, we have published the model music curriculum and we - Speech Link
3: Steve McCabe (LAB - Birmingham, Selly Oak) with the 2021-22 academic year. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Social Housing (Regulation) Bill [Lords]
Report stage - Wed 01 Mar 2023
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Dehenna Davison (CON - Bishop Auckland) towards, a housing management qualification at levels 4 and 5 respectively. - Speech Link
2: None 2021 temporary accommodation was a contributing factor in the deaths of 34 children. - Speech Link
3: None Imagine if your son or daughter were in year 11 or year 13, about to take their GCSEs or A-levels, and - Speech Link
4: David Simmonds (CON - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) new area at which their child could sit their GCSEs or A-levels. - Speech Link
5: None This amendment widens the regulator’s power to cancel a moratorium so the regulator can cancel it for - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Children’s Education Recovery and Childcare Costs - Tue 07 Jun 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Bridget Phillipson (LAB - Houghton and Sunderland South) Students sitting their GCSEs this summer lost around one in four days of face-to-face teaching in year - Speech Link
2: Robin Walker (CON - Worcester) in 2021, some 2.4 million children and young people now have access to a mental health support team, - Speech Link
3: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) These are genuine comments I have had in the past week alone:“Nursery fees for two kids cancel out my - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Gullis (CON - Stoke-on-Trent North) I also send my best wishes to the students on their upcoming GCSEs and A-levels. - Speech Link
5: Matt Rodda (LAB - Reading East) The way that STEM has been championed and the growing number of young people studying A-levels in maths - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Schools Bill [HL]
2nd reading: Part one - Mon 23 May 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) We made good progress in the years between 2009-10 and 2018-19, with levels of pupil absence falling - Speech Link
2: Lord Shipley (LDEM - Life peer) they get closer to GCSEs and A-levels all that is squashed out of them.” - Speech Link
3: Baroness Berridge (CON - Life peer) My Lords, with children sitting GCSEs, BTECs, A-levels and other qualifications, it is rather apt that - Speech Link
4: Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall (LAB - Life peer) is, over 43,000 students—were persistent absentees in 2021. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 31 Jan 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Karen Buck (LAB - Westminster North) What estimate he has made of the number of students studying for (a) BTECs and (b) T-levels in the 2021 - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Gullis (CON - Stoke-on-Trent North) We in Stoke-on-Trent are proud to be the home of Staffordshire University, but sadly it seems that cancel - Speech Link
3: Vicky Foxcroft (LAB - Lewisham, Deptford) After failing my GCSEs as a working-class 16-year-old, it was a BTEC in performing arts that got me back - Speech Link
4: Will Quince (CON - Colchester) In 2021, 328,700 children had a Government-funded early education entitlement place for 30 hours, worth - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Addington (LDEM - Excepted Hereditary) getting the right number of GCSEs, one will lose one’s status, and so on. - Speech Link
2: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Yet bursaries for the 2021-22 cohort are now zero for both music and art and design, while bursaries - 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: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) was published in July 2021. - Speech Link


Written Statements
GCSEs and A/AS Levels 2022: Contingency Arrangements - Mon 15 Nov 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Nadhim Zahawi (CON - Stratford-on-Avon) Assessed Grades (TAGs) for GCSES, AS and A-levels in 2022 in the unlikely event that it proves necessary - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Aberdare (CB - Excepted Hereditary) music GCSEs and A-levels, especially in state schools.Government has played an important role in helping - Speech Link
2: Earl of Clancarty (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Over the last seven years, take-up of arts GCSEs has fallen by 28%, and take-up of A-level music has - Speech Link
3: Baroness Merron (LAB - Life peer) findings delayed and businesses having to cancel proposed events due to the uncertainty they faced. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 02 Nov 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Nadhim Zahawi (CON - Stratford-on-Avon) expand our new T-levels, which are set to offer a new gold standard in technical education and will be - Speech Link
2: Bill Wiggin (CON - North Herefordshire) May 2021, but remains at less than 70% of pre-pandemic levels. - Speech Link
3: Ruth Jones (LAB - Newport West) That is unacceptable and I say to the people living in Newport West: I will keep fighting to cancel this - Speech Link