Higher Education (England) Regulations Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Higher Education (England) Regulations

Nick Gibb Excerpts
Wednesday 13th September 2017

(7 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Wes Streeting Portrait Wes Streeting
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On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Earlier this week, I raised a point of order, because I believed that in Education questions the shadow Minister of State, Department for Education, the right hon. Member for Guildford (Anne Milton), who is present in the Chamber, made an inaccurate statement—

Wes Streeting Portrait Wes Streeting
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Excuse me; it was wishful thinking. In response to my question in Education questions, the Minister of State made what I believe to be a factually inaccurate, possibly inadvertently misleading statement, when she said that Learndirect would no longer be providing apprenticeships. The following day, I rather forensically set out that that was not the case. As she is present, perhaps she might take this opportunity to correct the record and give us some reassurance that Ministers have an idea about what they are doing.