Education (Careers Guidance in Schools) Bill

I am grateful to the hon. Member for giving notice of her point of order. The issue she has raise...

I beg to move amendment

1, page 1, after subsection (4) insert—

“(4A) In subsection (...

With this it will be convenient to discuss amendment 2, page 1, leave out subsection (5).

Let me put the amendment in context, for colleagues who have not looked at the text of section 42...

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (Sir Christopher Chope) for his interest in th...

Let us start by congratulating the hon. Member for Workington (Mark Jenkinson) on reaching this s...

Order. Is the hon. Gentleman making a Third Reading speech or speaking to the amendments?

Am I going to get two different opportunities?

Yes.

Okay, so I will just speak to the amendments. That will speed us up nicely. None the less, I thou...

Order. If Members wish to speak, it would be helpful if they stood when the Member who is speakin...

Thank you for calling me so early in this debate, Mr Speaker. It is a pleasure to speak in it, an...

Order. I want to be helpful, but Members should be speaking to amendments to the Bill and not mak...

Thank you, Mr Speaker, for your guidance. On the amendment, I echo what my hon. Friend the Member...

I will not speak at great length about the amendments, only to say that every time my hon. Friend...

Order.

I do apologise, Mr Speaker. We are doing so well today. I have suddenly got louder—that is good.<...

Order. You are all going to have to stand if you want to speak, because I am having to guess here...

I commend my hon. Friend the Member for Workington (Mark Jenkinson) on bringing his Bill to this ...

I have made newbie mistake No. 1,273 procedurally, so I am happy to accept the Bill as it stands ...

I wish to touch briefly on the amendments tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch (S...

I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Workington (Mark Jenkinson) for long championing all things...

If there are no other speakers, I will call the Minister.

You are very kind, Mr Speaker, and it is lovely to be here with you this Friday morning.

Wh...

Order. I think the Minister is almost in danger of doing his Third Reading speech. This is about ...

Absolutely, Mr Speaker. The thrust of my hon. Friend’s amendments is about quality in the careers...

I much appreciate the Minister’s comments, and his exemplification of the importance of Christchu...

My hon. Friend is right about the one in five schools, but allow me to turn that figure on its he...

I appreciate that, but one in five schools is not complying with any of the eight Gatsby principl...

indicated dissent.

The Minister shakes his head, but if the Bill retains the phrase

“the person giving it cons...

I was not seeking to intervene, but I am glad to take the opportunity. Ofsted would obviously hol...

I much appreciate that full intervention to further clarify the Government’s intentions. In the e...

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.

I am delighted to present the Bill...

I very much welcome the hon. Member’s Bill and the speech that he is giving. Careers advice has c...

Order. I think the hon. Member knows that an intervention is not meant to be a speech. You can sp...

Thank you, Mr Speaker, and I thank the hon. Gentleman for making that important point. I will tal...

As the hon. Gentleman has already heard, we support the aims of his Bill. He has spoken of giving...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his support, and for making an important point that takes us back ...

I would like to repeat my congratulations to the hon. Member for Workington (Mark Jenkinson) on r...

Just on the point of the 2010 changes, I was working in schools at that time and I would like to ...

Order. Interventions should be quite short and a question.

The thing that the hon. Member sets out that is welcome is this shift—[Interruption] if she would...

I was fortunate to speak in the Westminster Hall debate earlier in the week, and given the time c...

It is a great privilege to be called so early in this debate, Madam Deputy Speaker. Let me start ...

I know that time is short, so I will keep my comments brief. I wish to start by congratulating my...

I was really delighted to learn that the Government agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Work...

I commend my hon. Friend the Member for Workington (Mark Jenkinson) for this amazing Bill. I was ...

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Workington (Mark Jenkinson) on bringing forward this...

It is a pleasure to be called to speak on this important Bill, and I commend my hon. Friend the M...

It is a pleasure to speak again in this debate. While I was slightly premature in mentioning some...

Like my hon. Friend the Member for Hertford and Stortford (Julie Marson), I launched into my Thir...

I welcome the Bill and the opportunity to talk about careers advice generally. I applaud my hon. ...

I will follow on from the contribution of my hon. Friend the Member for Stroud (Siobhan Baillie) ...

I will be brief, because I spoke to the amendments earlier. I feel strongly about the Bill and ap...

What a pleasure it has been to take part in this debate. We have had some medieval history from m...

With the leave of the House, I am grateful to everyone who has contributed to this debate and to ...