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🗣️ Speeches and Debates

  • Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Report (5th Day) (Continued): Amendment 217 3 Feb 2026

    I will speak very briefly to Amendment 217. I know from my own teaching experience—and anyone who has seen the film documentary “Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis” will know—exactly how important it is that permanently excluded children are folded into some support system before they are lost to crime or worse. This is a very simple amendment that could save young lives.

  • Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Report (5th Day) (Continued): Amendment 216 (to Amendment 215) 3 Feb 2026

    My Lords, I have spoken on this issue so many times in this House that I am not going to repeat myself—really—except to say that I have never taught in a school that allows mobile phones either in school or on the way to school. I have taught in some of the highest-performing schools—non-selective state schools that are some of the highest performing for pupil progress in the...

  • Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Report (5th Day): Amendment 206 3 Feb 2026

    My Lords, I shall speak mainly to Amendment 206, but, as somebody who has taught more PSHE days than he cares to remember, I think I might make a few comments on this one. I have spoken many times about how I think we need to bring PSHE and citizenship much more into the regular curriculum on a weekly basis. To put my noble and right reverend friend Lord Harries of Pentregarth’s mind at...

  • Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Report (5th Day): Amendment 198 3 Feb 2026

    My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 199, to which I have added my name. In this, I am channelling my inner Baroness Wolf of Dulwich—the noble Baroness sends her apologies that she cannot be in her place. This amendment attempts to rectify another example in the Bill in which a well-intentioned idea is turning out to be a mistake. It is a bit of an example of top-down government seemingly...

  • Erasmus+ Eligibility: Asylum Seekers - Question 29 Jan 2026

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  • Erasmus+ Eligibility: Asylum Seekers - Question 29 Jan 2026

    My Lords, I think we all know what I do for a living. I welcome our rejoining of Erasmus+ but, to follow on from the question asked by the noble Lord, Lord Mohammed of Tinsley, it is vital that state schools and people who do not have the opportunity to go on holiday abroad can join the Erasmus scheme and benefit from all this money. Can the Minister be slightly more specific about how...

  • Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Report (4th Day): Amendment 190 28 Jan 2026

    My Lords, I shall speak very briefly to Amendment 191A, to which I would have added my name had I been slightly more organised. I have been a member of teaching unions in the past but I am not any longer. Many teachers are not members of a union. These are personal decisions, whether cost or philosophical. Trade unions play an important role in the workplace, but not being a member should not...

  • Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Report (4th Day): Amendment 144 28 Jan 2026

    My Lords, I shall speak briefly to Amendments 160 and 175ZC, which we have heard so much about. The noble Baroness, Lady Blake, when talking to Amendment 158, painted a very rosy picture of parents being signposted to happy centres where their children could all take wonderful exams and obviously achieve enormous success. However, the reality, from what I have seen and heard, is a very...

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