Creative Sector: Educational Provision

Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton Excerpts

Wednesday 22nd July 2015 Lords Chamber

[Lord Nash]

I agree entirely with the noble Earl.

[Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton (Lab)]

My Lords, will the Minister reflect further on the intervention of his noble friend Lord Baker? I remember the noble Lord as Secretary of State when I chaired an education authority. Will the Minister please go away and consider the importance in the Government’s strategy of looking carefully at those subjects—design and technology—in detail to see what has happened to them? I did not always agree with the noble Lord, Lord Baker, but I agree with him that too many able pupils do not exercise the right basic education to go forward in the way the Government want with design and technology and all those subjects.

[Lord Nash]

I will go away and look at this further, but I repeat that the statistics are encouraging.