Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 11:38 am on 12 September 2024.
The Earl of Kinnoull
Deputy Chairman of Committees, Convenor of the Crossbench Peers, Deputy Speaker (Lords)
11:38,
12 September 2024
My Lords, while the Minister is reviewing the Turing scheme, I wonder whether it would be worth reviewing at the same time the success of the Taith scheme in Wales. It sits alongside the Turing scheme and is given to Welsh schoolchildren, and is a better approximation of the Erasmus+ programme.
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