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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) How frequently does the Secretary of State meet the Department for Education to ensure that disadvantaged - Speech Link
2: Lucy Frazer (Con - South East Cambridgeshire) The specific question was about engagement with the Department for Education, which I have regularly. - Speech Link
3: Julia Lopez (Con - Hornchurch and Upminster) We are looking at bootcamps and T-levels, which are much more practical vocational skills. - Speech Link
4: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) What recent assessment the commissioners have made of the contribution of church schools to education - Speech Link
5: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) religious-ethos education of their choice. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Tutoring Provision - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) Unfortunately, it clashes with a meeting of the Education Committee, but the Chair—the hon. - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) For levelling up to mean anything, we have to get education right. - Speech Link
3: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) A-levels and T-levels in a single qualification and ending the artificial distinction between academic and vocational - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2024 - Tue 19 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Harlech (Con - Excepted Hereditary) and Research in Wales under powers in the Senedd’s Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Humphreys (LD - Life peer) Under CTER, or the commission, higher education will join further education, LA-maintained school sixth - Speech Link
3: None During my time as vocational co-ordinator, I found their input invaluable for both myself and for students - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Music Education - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Michael Ellis (Con - Northampton North) I rise to speak about the changes to funding for music education hubs. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Lewer (Con - Northampton South) The Department for Education has encouraged flexibility and autonomy in music partnerships. - Speech Link
3: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) young disabled people, and UD, which runs programmes including Flames Collective, its flagship pre-vocational - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 18 Mar 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Gordon Henderson (Con - Sittingbourne and Sheppey) people have the qualifications and skills they need to progress into work once they finish full-time education - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) this great United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, how can we work better with further education - Speech Link
3: Jo Churchill (Con - Bury St Edmunds) I talk regularly to colleagues in the Department for Education, ensuring that those skilled boot camp - Speech Link
4: David Davis (Con - Haltemprice and Howden) taking to improve the provision of workplace health services through occupational health pathways and vocational - Speech Link
5: Rob Butler (Con - Aylesbury) identified Aylesbury north and Aylesbury north-west as areas for extra attention, where we could improve education - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Angus Brendan MacNeil (Ind - Na h-Eileanan an Iar) Gentleman is talking about education outcomes. - Speech Link
2: Kate Hollern (Lab - Blackburn) Investment is essential in public services that shape health outcomes from birth, such as education, - Speech Link
3: Dan Carden (Lab - Liverpool, Walton) We must think about regional banks, vocational colleges and a form of corporate governance that can sustain - Speech Link
4: Sam Tarry (Lab - Ilford South) very heart of it; one that invests in people and their skills, whether that is at university or for vocational - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 11 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) That is why we co-created the education staff wellbeing charter with the education sector, and we have - Speech Link
2: Gillian Keegan (Con - Chichester) It is clear that every time Labour gets into power, children’s education suffers. - Speech Link
3: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) It is clear that every time Labour gets into power, children’s education suffers. - Speech Link
4: Robert Halfon (Con - Harlow) strengthened legislation to ensure that schools do more to promote apprenticeships and technical and vocational - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Patten (Con - Life peer) There is of course that vocational tinge to it all. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Blackstone (Lab - Life peer) include in HE not just universities but FE colleges, which are so often neglected but provide much needed vocational - Speech Link
3: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) achievements should not be pressured by schools and parents into university when apprenticeships and vocational - Speech Link
4: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) You can be an excellent vocational university, focusing on skills requirements in your area. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) will address recruitment and retention challenges faced by colleges offering high-value technical, vocational - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Ashton of Upholland (Lab - Life peer) and vocational training to those with an additional disadvantage in a place where children had few opportunities - Speech Link
2: Baroness Goudie (Lab - Life peer) Decisions to bar girls from middle school through to higher education have led to the closure of schools - Speech Link
3: Baroness Cox (XB - Life peer) Many children cannot go to school and so have no education. - Speech Link
4: Lord Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich (Bshp - Bishops) In these situations, state services such as health, education and the rule of law are degraded, with - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Educational Attainment of Boys - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Nick Fletcher (Con - Don Valley) Boys are also behind girls in terms of exam performance in A-levels, T-levels and vocational education - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Opportunities do not always come through education, but the opportunities to have education must be there - Speech Link
3: David Evennett (Con - Bexleyheath and Crayford) Opportunity through education and offering good education is what we all want. - Speech Link
4: Alexander Stafford (Con - Rother Valley) If the problem starts with early education, how can we foster a healthier, more boy-friendly education - Speech Link