Malala Yousafzai

Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead Excerpts

Wednesday 10th December 2014 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Northover]

Again, the noble Baroness is well aware of the significance of this. We are putting a great deal of effort into teaching the teachers. For example, in Pakistan we are training 90,000 teachers a year in Punjab and 16,000 in KP. She will see the scale of that, but it is extremely important that the training we offer is high quality.

[Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead (Lab)]

My Lords, does the Minister agree that tackling the barriers that women and girls face, not least to education, has to involve an urgent need to tackle the negative effects on their life chances of cultural attitudes, social norms, domestic duties, early marriage and pregnancy? Surely those elements dictate that access to education is made impossible.

[Baroness Northover]

Indeed. I agree with the noble Baroness.