Found: Education Otherwise’s March 2024 report is based on freedom of information (FOI) responses from all
Apr. 19 2024
Source Page: G7 foreign ministers' statement in Italy, April 2024Found: and its repeated obstruction of countries’ high seas freedom of navigation and we express serious concern
Special Report Apr. 19 2024
Committee: Culture, Media and Sport Committee (Department: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport)Found: The Committee’s work will help ensure that the right balance is struck between the freedom to enjoy
Special Report Apr. 19 2024
Committee: Women and Equalities CommitteeFound: It was published on 19 April 2024 by authority of the House of Commons.
Mentions:
1: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) and thank him for securing an early debate on the report, for his comprehensive and powerful opening speech - Speech Link
2: Lord Stevens of Birmingham (XB - Life peer) They also enhance the Royal Navy’s centuries-old global contribution to rules-based freedom of navigation - Speech Link
3: Lord St John of Bletso (XB - Excepted Hereditary) There is, of course, the risk of singularity. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) In his Lancaster House speech earlier this year, the right honourable Grant Shapps MP stated that we - Speech Link
5: Lord Lisvane (XB - Life peer) with the result.I am also grateful to the Minister for some positive announcements made during his speech - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) Such is the importance of these events—and I notified the office of the Leader of the House that I would - Speech Link
2: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) Could he return to his speech on the Bill? - Speech Link
3: None was a great lover of tortoises and had lots of them. - Speech Link
4: James Wild (Con - North West Norfolk) Awareness, which conducted freedom of information requests across a number of forces. - Speech Link
5: Anna Firth (Con - Southend West) Of course, I have lots of people to thank. - Speech Link
Asked by: Paul Blomfield (Labour - Sheffield Central)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 21 March 2024 to Question 17725 on Academic Freedom, whether she has had recent discussions with the Office for Students on whether (a) higher education institutions and (b) students’ unions will have enough time to implement the guidance on securing free speech within the law before those obligations enter into force.
Answered by David Johnston - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
My right hon. Friend, the Member for East Sussex, and former Minister for Children, Families and Wellbeing with responsibility for freedom of speech in the department, met with Professor Arif Ahmed in 2023 following his appointment, and discussed plans for implementation of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act (the Act) over the next two years. I also met with Arif Ahmed on 16 January 2024. The intention has always been for the Office for Students (OfS) to publish any guidance within good time of the Act coming into force to allow the sector sufficient time to consider it. The expectation expressed was that any guidance pertaining to the provisions that come into force on 1 August 2024 would be published by summer 2024, giving the sector the summer period to implement it into their practices.
The department understands that the OfS continues to work towards these timelines as set out on their website here: https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/quality-and-standards/freedom-of-speech/changes-to-regulation/, although precise timings are a matter for the OfS.
A draft version of the guidance that the OfS intend to issue following consultation has already been published for the sector to consider here: https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/media/fsvjdljh/regulatory-advice-24-guidance-related-to-freedom-of-speech.pdf.
Mentions:
1: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) Of course, there is an appropriate balance to be struck in relation to protecting people’s freedom of - Speech Link
2: Ross, Douglas (Con - Highlands and Islands) that from the police and from legal experts.We said at the very beginning that the act would put free speech - Speech Link
3: Ross, Douglas (Con - Highlands and Islands) warned that the police would be overwhelmed, and that the law was poorly written and would put free speech - Speech Link
4: Brown, Keith (SNP - Clackmannanshire and Dunblane) —and without freedom of movement.Does the First Minister agree that Scotland needs not a change of Government - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) the Government Benches know that laws and movements based on hate and division always try to curtail freedom - Speech Link
2: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) Hamas are terrorists, and we should all say so and defend freedom of speech. Will my right hon. - Speech Link
3: Charlotte Nichols (Lab - Warrington North) I associate myself with the remarks of the Leader of the House and the shadow Leader of the House on - Speech Link
4: Holly Lynch (Lab - Halifax) The Leader of the House will have followed the efforts of the Secretary of State for Environment, Food - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Christopher Chope (Con - Christchurch) Friend’s being able to make his own speech and to its being subjected to scrutiny by the hon. - Speech Link
2: Graham Stringer (Lab - Blackley and Broughton) sending infected people back into care homes—but it did not lock down and it did not restrict people’s freedom - Speech Link
3: Danny Kruger (Con - Devizes) neither to that letter, which was written in February—here we are in April—nor, after months, to the freedom - Speech Link
4: Neale Hanvey (Alba - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath) a freedom of information lawsuit against the US Food and Drug Administration indicate that the agency - Speech Link