"My Lords, to turn to the micro level of this, we do not carry change in our pockets now so many charity collections are not going to work. What are the Government doing to make sure people can feel confident about using a card to make payments and making sure …..." Lord Addington - View Speech
"My Lords, I thank the Minister for giving us that introduction. It is nice to have her back, and I hope she is fully recovered. The most pedantic thing I could think to say is that the Minister said Buckinghamshire, Surrey and Warwickshire but the regulations are in a different …..." Lord Addington - View Speech
"What I would like to extract is the identification of those who have a learning disability or special educational need and who will require slightly different learning patterns to get the best results. More of the same in a system in which you have already failed will probably lead to …..." Lord Addington - View Speech
"My Lords, this is one of those debates where you think, “Who do I disagree with?” I am afraid that I have not disagreed with anything from anybody. As I speak for my party, it is important for me to restate that things went wrong with the treatment of the …..." Lord Addington - View Speech
"My Lords, looking at this debate, what strikes me as the most unloved thing in the Room is the EBacc. The fact that we have an overemphasis on academic standards has squeezed out the fun bits. If I had longer, I would go over many of the speeches, but the …..." Lord Addington - View Speech
"My Lords, the most depressing thing about this debate is that it has been decades since I first spoke in a debate that pointed out that anybody with a learning disability or autism will have very bad health results and die early. That is an established fact. My noble friend …..." Lord Addington - View Speech
"My Lords, to sum up this debate briefly, I have nothing new to add. I merely agree with certain noble Lords who have already spoken. As for the Government’s approach, Henry VII’s son is all over it, and that is never a good thing for a Bill. I agree with …..." Lord Addington - View Speech
"My Lords, as the noble Baroness, Lady Blake, has just said, this statutory instrument is probably well overdue. It is something that we have not looked at, because Governments of whatever colour or combination really just did not get around to it. So, I congratulate the current Government on having …..." Lord Addington - View Speech
"Actually, there is quite a lot of good practice and basic support in virtually all further education institutions. For things such as information capture, there is a standard for everywhere. It can be used in a few ways; for example, lectures and so on can be taped and transcribed into …..." Lord Addington - View Speech
"My Lords, the Minister has accepted that every individual, regardless of when or how they pray, has a right to be educated and feel safe while that is going on. Can he go a little further and tell us what process the Government will introduce to ensure that those groups …..." Lord Addington - View Speech