🗣️ Speeches and Debates
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My Lords, I welcome this report, particularly its focus on local areas, and also strongly agree with a number of previous speakers that Blackpool college, the Social Mobility Commission and Alun Francis are really inspirational. There are some important specific recommendations, but I would like to offer a couple of more general—and perhaps somewhat partly downbeat—comments. There is a...
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My Lords, as a member of the committee which produced this report, I join others in congratulating the noble Lord, Lord Wood, putting on record my thanks for his outstanding chairing and my thanks to the committee staff. I want to emphasise one of the major conclusions, which the noble Lord, Lord Liddle, and others have highlighted and which I think was for many of us the major new insight:...
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To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to maintain real terms per-pupil funding for 16–19 year olds, as set out in the Post-16 education and skills white paper, published on 20 October 2025.
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My Lords, in begging leave to ask the Question standing in my name on the Order Paper, I declare an interest as a governor of a 16-19 academy.
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I thank the Minister for her reply and was delighted to hear the announcement yesterday. But there is a more general issue. This country, unusually, underfunds 16-19 education compared with 11-16—lower secondary—education. The post-16 White Paper was very welcome because it acknowledged the critical importance of this phase. Yesterday the Government announced an increase to previously...
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I am grateful to the Minister for her comments, and indeed to everybody who was engaged in the debate. I completely accept that an abortifacient is a drug that can be used for other things. I am not sure what that has to do with my amendment, which is to do with false representation. For all the reasons I spoke about—the fact that we are throwing a bit of a bomb into a changing world rather...
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My Lords, I shall speak to my Amendment 426C and thank the noble Baronesses, Lady Falkner, Lady Spielman and Lady Lawlor, for their support. I will also speak in support of Amendment 422E, to which I have added my name. Before explaining why we have tabled Amendment 426C, I give a little context. Like, I am sure, all other noble Lords, I have received a great deal of correspondence on Clause...
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✍️ Written Questions and Answers
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To ask His Majesty's Government how many training places in construction skills boot camps have been delivered since April 2025.
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To ask His Majesty's Government how much of the £600 million construction skills package announced on 23 March 2025 has been spent to date.
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To ask His Majesty's Government how many industry placements have been organized by the Construction Industry Training Board since April 2025, and at what cost.
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To ask His Majesty's Government which colleges have been designated as technical excellence colleges specializing in construction skills.
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To ask His Majesty's Government how many apprenticeship levy-paying employers have an annual pay bill of between £3 million and £3.25 million; whether they assessed the impact of the increase in the employer co-investment rate for starters from 1 August 2026 on recruitment of apprentices by such employers; and if so, what plans they have to publish that assessment.
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To ask His Majesty's Government how many apprentices aged (1) 18 or under, (2) 19–24, and (3) 25 and over, were employed in 2025 by employers with an annual pay bill of (a) between £3 million and £3.25 million, and (b) over £3.25 million.
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To ask His Majesty's Government how many people currently work for Skills England.
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To ask His Majesty's Government how many people were employed by the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education in 2023.
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