My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Deech for initiating the debate. I declare my interest as principal of Hertford College, Oxford. I was incredibly lucky to have one-to-one and one-to-two tuition at university. My tutor said, “I have you for three years. I’m going to spend two of them teaching you how to think and then, at the end, I’m going to teach you how to pass the exams”....
My Lords, one of the greatest challenges that the committee faced when writing this report was the lack of good data on how we work in the UK. I would like to expand on some of the points made by our excellent chair, the noble Baroness, Lady Scott. Without knowing who works from home on how many days, we cannot look for associations between that and various different outcomes and possible...
My Lords, as the final Back-Bench speaker in this debate, I want to speak about something that seems to be missing from His Majesty’s gracious Speech: a sense of the bigger picture and why it feels to so many as though the country “just isn’t working”. Our public services and the services from companies that we rely on are just not delivering what we expect and need. We want water...
My Lords, I add my support for Amendments 255 and 257. I will not repeat what has been so eloquently said by my noble friend Lord Freyberg and the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb, but, as the Minister pointed out in Committee, environmental assets can be included in the register of assets of community value if they are shown to support social and economic well-being. But I am very...
My Lords, I support these amendments. I spoke to Amendment 132 in Committee. I will not repeat what I said then, but I just want to say that the Minister said in Committee that the reason why the Government want to stick with their own wording on Clause 44—a clause that we all support very strongly—was that they did not want to be too prescriptive regarding what areas should be looking at...
I am sorry, but the noble and learned Lord has not addressed Amendment 144A.
My Lords, I will introduce Amendment 144A in my name. It is related to my other Amendments 726A and 728A, which are grouped much later and to which I do not expect to speak. I draw attention to my registered interests. When I was at the Winton Centre in Cambridge, I led a team that produced information for patients in the NHS, and I am still involved with that. That experience underscores...
My Lords, I will make a very quick point. I was not expecting to speak on this, so I apologise for not being prepared. When I was at Cambridge, I worked on many risk communication tools that were used by doctors to help calculate somebody’s prognosis, particularly of cancer, and to communicate it to patients. A standard way of communicating that prognosis was to say, “Out of 100 patients...
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To ask His Majesty's Government what support they provide to stonemasonry trainees at level 3 to help them to progress and demonstrate progression in their careers.
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to support small and medium-sized enterprises to address the indirect costs of training apprentices in heritage building crafts, such as travel and accommodation for training.
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to support adult retraining in heritage building crafts through extending National Insurance relief or similar schemes to ensure such career paths are accessible to all demographics.
To ask His Majesty's Government how many training providers are currently able to run level 2 apprenticeships in stonemasonry; and what plans they have to support further providers to offer that course.
To ask His Majesty's Government what diploma qualifications they will fund for trainee stonemasons from September 2026.
To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to promote the Potty Training Guide, published on 9 December 2025.
To ask His Majesty's Government what support they are giving to nursery providers to help to support children to stop using nappies at an appropriate age.
To ask His Majesty's Government whether apprenticeships within priority heritage building crafts will include funding for the apprentice's salary and a compensation grant to SME employers to address reduced productivity linked to the apprenticeship.
