Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Peter Aldous

Monday 13th May 2024 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. I can save the Minister replying. The question is only about filling job vacancies in Sittingbourne and Sheppey, not the rest of the world. Let us move on. That was a good effort but, out of 10, I would give it one.

[Peter Aldous (Waveney) (Con)]

12. What steps he is taking to reform the welfare system.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lindsay Hoyle and Peter Aldous

Wednesday 29th June 2022 Commons Chamber

[Peter Aldous (Waveney) (Con)]

Q3. Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. [Laughter.] Mr Speaker, my sincere apologies.There are, Mr Speaker, great opportunities to create exciting new jobs in low-carbon energy along the East Anglian coast, and East Coast College is up for the challenge of providing local people with the necessary skills. However, it and other colleges are finding it increasingly difficult to recruit and retain teachers in such work as fabrication, engineering and construction. Will my right hon. Friend ensure that the Government come up with a cross-departmental strategy to address this staffing crisis in our further education colleges, which could undermine the levelling-up agenda?

[Mr Speaker]

It is obviously Deputies day.