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Division Vote (Lords)
14 Oct 2025 - Business of the House - View Vote Context
Baroness Valentine (XB) voted No and in line with the House
One of 47 Crossbench No votes vs 10 Crossbench Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 211 Noes - 261
Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 09 May 2024
Skills: Importance for the UK Economy and Quality of Life

"My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Aberdare for introducing this topic. We have the economic challenge of building relevant skills for the future and the social challenge of one in 10 youngsters being unemployed. I shall focus on the need to join these two thoughts up …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Housing: Young People

"My Lords, I start by thanking the noble Lord for introducing this debate. I have been aware of housing challenges, particularly in London and Blackpool, for a long time, but the subject of this debate has encouraged me to look more intensely at the challenges facing the young and at …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Housing: Young People

"On the subject of migration, as far as I recall, a very large number of migrants are students. I wonder whether the noble Lord would like to comment on student housing in that context?..."
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Division Vote (Lords)
23 Oct 2023 - Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill - View Vote Context
Baroness Valentine (XB) voted Aye and in line with the House
One of 38 Crossbench Aye votes vs 13 Crossbench No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 208 Noes - 199
Division Vote (Lords)
23 Oct 2023 - Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill - View Vote Context
Baroness Valentine (XB) voted Aye and against the House
One of 23 Crossbench Aye votes vs 19 Crossbench No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 183 Noes - 198
Division Vote (Lords)
4 Sep 2023 - Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill - View Vote Context
Baroness Valentine (XB) voted No and against the House
One of 15 Crossbench No votes vs 25 Crossbench Aye votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 180 Noes - 175
Written Question
Housing: Standards
Tuesday 25th July 2023

Asked by: Baroness Valentine (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to introduce legislation on decent homes standards which includes the private rented sector, and on what timescale.

Answered by Baroness Scott of Bybrook - Shadow Minister (Housing, Communities and Local Government)

We will legislate to introduce a Decent Homes Standard in the private rented sector at the earliest opportunity.

Written Question
Schools: Standards
Monday 6th March 2023

Asked by: Baroness Valentine (Crossbench - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether funding for Priority Education Investment Areas is intended to provide an element of continuity funding to some of the previous Opportunity Areas; and whether they plan to distribute this funding in time to enable activity to continue during the current academic year.

Answered by Baroness Barran - Shadow Minister (Education)

The Schools White Paper: Opportunity for all, published in March 2022, announced that Priority Education Investment Areas will receive a share of around £40 million of funding to address local needs.

The previous Opportunity Areas make up 12 of the 24 Priority Education Investment Areas. They will receive funding to support targeted interventions to improve attainment in literacy and numeracy at key stage 2 and 4, in line with the priorities for each area. Delivery of this support will commence this academic year.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 22 Feb 2023
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill

"My Lords, my Amendment 57 is about the distribution of levelling-up funding. The premise of it is, first, that levelling-up challenges are by their nature long-term and difficult and, secondly, that any attempt to address them must be locally sensitive and not hampered by different government departments approaching the issue …..."
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