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Educating Engineers — [Mr Charles Walker in the Chair] (16 May 2013)

Peter Luff: I again pay tribute to my hon. Friend for the way she has engaged with the design and technology curriculum. Business engagement is crucial. She probably cannot prejudge it, but is she aware of how the Perkins review, which is being conducted by the chief scientist at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, will address such issues? It is a cross-departmental matter, not just for...

Educating Engineers — [Mr Charles Walker in the Chair] (16 May 2013)

Peter Luff: I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman, particularly as he is being gracious about my speech. That was what the CBI said, but I think the hon. Gentleman will find that the new draft of the D and T curriculum, on which I have worked closely with the Minister, is a great improvement on that. The whole sector, including the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Design and Technology Association...

Educating Engineers — [Mr Charles Walker in the Chair] (16 May 2013)

Peter Luff: Not delighted, but pleased.

Educating Engineers — [Mr Charles Walker in the Chair] (16 May 2013)

Peter Luff: I am most grateful, Mr Walker; I shall try not to take up all that time, generous though the allocation is. I congratulate the hon. Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston (Andrew Miller), the Chair of the Committee, on the excellent way he introduced his report and on his earlier speech, and my hon. Friend the Member for South Basildon and East Thurrock (Stephen Metcalfe) on what he said. I...

Educating Engineers — [Mr Charles Walker in the Chair] (16 May 2013)

Peter Luff: Many young women are doing that most magnificently. ScienceGrrl is a marvellous organisation—I cannot believe how many R’s there are in girl now. They are a fantastic bunch of young women trying to inspire the next generation of female engineers and scientists. I use the word “engineer”, but I am not sure what it means; I think it is really applied science.

Educating Engineers — [Mr Charles Walker in the Chair] (16 May 2013)

Peter Luff: I do not think that I am allowed to recognise the Gallery, Mr Walker, but I am not surprised. I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for correcting the number of R’s. I have their literature in my hand. That exchange has put my off my stride. Addressing the issue is of huge importance. It is valuable for young people to go back to school to show secondary school pupils doing GCSEs and...

Educating Engineers — [Mr Charles Walker in the Chair] (16 May 2013)

Peter Luff: I congratulate the hon. Gentleman and his Committee wholeheartedly on the report—eight out of 10, I would say. He has just spoken about gender equality and gender issues in engineering, and there is a very good passage in his report on the subject. However, I could find no recommendations to address the issues of diversity when it comes to gender and engineering. Was that because he...

Educating Engineers — [Mr Charles Walker in the Chair] (16 May 2013)

Peter Luff: It is already doing precisely that. Big Bang is going regional.

Outlawries Bill: Debate on the Address — [Ist Day] (8 May 2013)

Peter Luff: I beg to move, That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, as follows: Most Gracious Sovereign, We, Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in Parliament assembled, beg leave to offer our humble thanks to Your Majesty for the Gracious Speech which Your Majesty has addressed to both Houses of...

Agricultural Wages Board (24 April 2013)

Peter Luff: I am most grateful, particularly when I was not able to be here for the opening speeches. I agree with the hon. Gentleman about rural poverty, and I strongly support the Gangmasters Licensing Authority, as I campaigned for its existence and it is doing great work in my constituency. In a genuine spirit of curiosity, I ask the hon. Gentleman whether he is saying that farmers are uniquely...

Oral Answers to Questions — Education: Design and Technology Curriculum (22 April 2013)

Peter Luff: When he will announce the structure and content of the design and technology curriculum; and if he will make a statement.

Oral Answers to Questions — Education: Design and Technology Curriculum (22 April 2013)

Peter Luff: I congratulate my hon. Friend on the thoughtful and intelligent way she has engaged with the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Design and Technology Association, and with Dick Olver, Sir James Dyson and others, in considering the new design and technology curriculum. May I encourage her to bring forward a curriculum for the 21st century that inspires young people, particularly girls, to...

Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport: Telecommunications Market (18 April 2013)

Peter Luff: On the subject of rural broadband, I encourage my hon. Friend to recognise that there is more competition in the market than some people understand. Companies such as Cotswold Satellite in my constituency have high-quality, high-speed and low-cost satellite services that are available now, to anyone who wants them.

Business without Debate: Development orders: development within the curtilage of a dwelling house (16 April 2013)

Peter Luff: I think that the Secretary of State will recognise that the level of attendance in the House today for the consideration of Lords amendments shows how seriously many of us take the matter. To return to his earlier metaphor, he is a good egg and I am prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt. He must not scramble the process, however, and I hope that he will return with substantive...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Defence Budget (15 April 2013)

Peter Luff: I congratulate my right hon. Friend unreservedly on his success in the herculean task of balancing the defence budget, but does he agree that if we are to keep that budget balanced, one of the things that has to change is the status of Defence Equipment and Support? Can he share with the House any clear indication of when he will announce his intentions in respect of that organisation?

Oral Answers to Questions — Business, Innovation and Skills: Female Apprenticeships (21 March 2013)

Peter Luff: This week, I met two hugely impressive female engineering apprentices from the company MBDA, which achieves a 50% intake of female engineering apprentices. That shows that it can be done. Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the best ways of achieving that is for businesses to engage with schools as part of an effective design and technology curriculum?

Design and Technology Curriculum (20 March 2013)

Peter Luff: Before the Minister finishes, and in order to help her save her voice for a second or two, may I say how encouraged I am by her response? Her remarks take us very much in the right direction of travel, and I look forward to engaging with her on this process, as she has so kindly suggested.

Design and Technology Curriculum (20 March 2013)

Peter Luff: I am grateful for the opportunity to debate the draft design and technology curriculum and to hear the Minister’s response. I shall sum up the issues that are worrying people in three themes, which an academic suggested to me. The first is that there is a narrowing of focus. The draft programme of study for design and technology returns to a 1950s DIY curriculum with an emphasis on...

Design and Technology Curriculum (20 March 2013)

Peter Luff: I am glad to hear Harold Wilson’s words spoken on this side of the House for a change. I strongly agree with my hon. Friend. The phrase “make do and mend” will feature later in my speech. His constituent makes a powerful point that goes to the heart of the issue that we need to address. I pay tribute to the university of Worcester for teaching design and technology so well...

Oral Answers to Questions — Education: Topical Questions (4 March 2013)

Peter Luff: We all want young people to be able to cook, but the design and technology curriculum on which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is consulting at present is very important to the whole future of British industry and the British economy, so does he not think that giving primacy to cooking in that curriculum might be over-egging the pudding?