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Skills for Growth — Statement (11 Nov 2009)

Baroness Sharp of Guildford: ...individual skills accounts although we have some questions that I will put to the Minister about those. I have a number of questions about the Statement. In the first place, as the noble Lord, Lord Hunt mentioned, it comes at the same time as rumours of a substantial cut in skills funding. The rumour is of a cut of £340 million in the skills budget, of which £100 million would be...

Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill: Committee (6th Day) (Continued) (12 Oct 2009)

Baroness Sharp of Guildford: ...is nevertheless channelled through local authorities directly to schools. If we are going to be channelling it to schools, we feel it should cover the whole 14 to 19 block. As the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, began by saying, local authorities are now responsible for the provision of education and training, which covers the apprenticeship area. We would like to see the money going through local...

Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill — Committee (1st Day) (16 Jun 2009)

Baroness Sharp of Guildford: ...and Higher Education, which is involved in providing work-based learning in various forms. I would like to be able to give it a similar advertisement for what it achieves as the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, has given to McDonald's and its training programmes. We have a great deal of sympathy with this raft of amendments. It has been put to us by quite a number of those who have been in touch...

Charles Darwin — Debate (19 Mar 2009)

Baroness Sharp of Guildford: ...magnifiers, a plant identikit, a mini seed bank and all kinds of experiments that the children can do. They are all encouraged not only to do these experiments but to participate in the great plant hunt. I believe that, among other things, this will provide Kew with the best collection of daisy seeds possessed by any country. All primary school children are being encouraged to collect the...

Energy: Radioactive Waste Management (S&T Report) (29 Oct 2007)

Baroness Sharp of Guildford: ...report that deep geological disposal at present represents the best procedure for the management of high-level and intermediate waste—I take on board the points made by the noble Lord, Lord Hunt; secondly, that the site for such disposal should be chosen not just by its geological suitability but by the process of consultation and the willingness on the part of the local community to...

Education Bill [HL] (13 Dec 2004)

Baroness Sharp of Guildford: ...means of holding the inspectors to account. "Who inspects the inspectors?" remains a very important question. Following on from that is the question raised by the noble Lords, Lord Dearing and Lord Hunt, of appeals procedures. The shorter the inspection, the more important it is that there are robust appeals procedures, which there are not at the moment. We need to think hard about that...

Climate Change (9 Feb 2004)

Baroness Sharp of Guildford: ...change is for real. Despite people sometimes wondering over the past 25 years whether we are merely experiencing a little variation in the ice ages, the speeches we heard from the noble Lords, Lord Hunt, Lord Tanlaw and Lord Oxburgh, and the changes we have seen leave us in no doubt, as the noble Lord, Lord Oxburgh, said, that there is an unassailable circumstantial case that humankind is...

Local Government Bill (10 Jul 2003)

Baroness Sharp of Guildford: My Lords, I very much endorse what the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, has just said in respect of trusting teachers and governing bodies. The noble Lord, Lord Elder, was right to say that the question here is whether to repeal Section 28 encumbered or unencumbered by the two proposed new clauses. My reading of the new clauses is that the first, tabled as Amendment No. 25, would provide that where a...