All 2 Debates between Stephen Lloyd and Damian Hinds

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Debate between Stephen Lloyd and Damian Hinds
Monday 11th March 2019

(5 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Damian Hinds Portrait Damian Hinds
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All employers with a payroll in excess of £3 million pay the levy, but many apprenticeships are available that can work for schools, including apprenticeships for school business professionals and teaching assistants. Of course, there is also the postgraduate teaching apprenticeship. I am happy to meet my hon. Friend to discuss that further.

Stephen Lloyd Portrait Stephen Lloyd (Eastbourne) (Ind)
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T5. East Sussex College is an excellent FE college in my constituency. A deplorable situation has developed over the past two years whereby teachers teaching A-level at that college earn, like many others across the sector, nearly 20% less than teachers in the school just down the road. That is not sustainable. What will the Secretary of State do to ensure that enough money is ring-fenced for staff wages in the FE sector?

Damian Hinds Portrait Damian Hinds
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I am sorry; we struggled a tiny bit to hear the full question. We have several programmes on the subject of FE staff and ensuring that posts are sufficiently attractive. However, it is probably best if I say that either my right hon. Friend the Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills or I will meet the hon. Gentleman to discuss the college in Eastbourne.

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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I heard perfectly clearly. Does the hon. Gentleman want to blurt out the last sentence very briefly?

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Debate between Stephen Lloyd and Damian Hinds
Monday 13th November 2017

(7 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Stephen Lloyd Portrait Stephen Lloyd (Eastbourne) (LD)
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T9. Universal credit is proving to be a real challenge for self-employed people as it fails to account for fluctuations in income from one month to another, meaning that many are losing out on hundreds of pounds of benefits. This is totally counter to the aspirational vision of universal credit that the Government preach, so will the Minister commit to immediately reviewing the benefit’s suitability for the self-employed and fixing this anomaly?

Damian Hinds Portrait Damian Hinds
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On the contrary, universal credit specifically responds each month to what a person’s earnings have been in that month. That is at the heart of its design. We want to help people in self-employment to grow their earnings and to ensure that they have sustainable remunerative work, so we have introduced a programme within the new enterprise allowance to help people to do just that.