Technical and Further Education Bill

My Lords, as we embark on three days of Committee on the Technical and Further Education Bill, I ...

My Lords, I was not going to speak this early but I support these amendments. The desire across a...

My Lords, I too support these amendments and the words we have just heard about the importance of...

My Lords, I support the amendments because their aim is the right one in the circumstances. I tha...

My Lords, I want briefly to add my support for these amendments, particularly Amendment 1. There ...

I, too, support the amendments and thank the noble Lord, Lord Nash, for his helpful letter. My he...

My Lords, I apologise for not being present at Second Reading. I hope that when the Institute for...

I will be brief, because some of these issues will come out when we deal with other amendments. I...

I, too, am not asking for all the answers now. I think we have a muddle with providers here. As I...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Watson and Lord Hunt, for these four amendments....

I listened carefully to what the Minister said about the role of Ofsted and a risk-based approach...

I am grateful to the noble Lord. I am meeting Ofsted shortly, either next week or the week after....

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for that answer, but could he enlarge on what he said ...

I will write to my noble friend about that.

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this lively debate. It is important tha...

Moved by

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

2: After Clause 1, insert the following new Clause—...

My Lords, as this is the start of Committee, I remind the Committee that my wife is a consultant ...

My Lords, I was saying—with apologies to the noble Lord, Lord Storey—that heads are ingenious at ...

My Amendment 11 is also in the names of the noble Lords, Lord Adonis and Lord Storey, and the nob...

My Lords, I shall speak generally to this group of amendments and specifically to Amendments 11 a...

My Lords, as a vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Apprenticeships, I meet a lot ...

My Lords, I can only second what has been said this afternoon. I was interested to hear from the ...

My Lords, I support the amendments in this group, particularly Amendment 11, to which I have adde...

My Lords, the incentive I would like to see is schools being allowed to take credit for the perfo...

I apologise that I was not able to be at the Second Reading of the Bill and I declare an interest...

My Lords, I also apologise that I was not able to speak at Second Reading and I remind the Commit...

My Lords, I support the amendments in general. I declare an interest as a director of Parkside Fe...

My Lords, before we continue, I have a special request. Because the loop is not working, could no...

My Lords, I had got as far as noting that the university technical college in Cambridge had encou...

My Lords, I will endeavour to be brief, because we have had a very extensive debate on this. I pa...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Watson of Invergowrie and Lord Hunt of Kings Hea...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that comprehensive response. I am very pleased that he has acc...

Before the amendment is withdrawn, I thank everybody who spoke in this debate for the support the...

Moved by

Lord Watson of Invergowrie

3: After Clause 1, insert the following new Claus...

My Lords, I hope that this group of amendments will take rather less time than the previous group...

Have we passed Amendment 11?

We will pass Amendment 11 when we come to it.

Yes, of course. I am anticipating—sorry. I will have to wait.

The noble Lord, Lord Baker is, of course, a novice at these procedures; or perhaps, like me, he i...

My Lords, I support these amendments. We had extensive discussions on these issues during the pas...

I feel quite strongly about this at both levels. Looking back 10 or 20 years, we would never have...

My Lords, turning first to Amendment 3, I think we can all agree that academic freedom and instit...

I thank all noble Lords who spoke on this group and I welcome the noble Baroness to her first sti...

Moved by

Lord Watson of Invergowrie

6: After Clause 1, insert the following new Claus...

I should say at the start that I am not quite sure why Amendments 6 and 8 have been grouped but, ...

My Lords, I wish to speak to Amendment 8 in this group, which covers some of the same ground that...

My Lords, I find these amendments very interesting because they pose the question of what sort of...

My Lords, I support what my noble friend has said. The Government are creating a very powerful bo...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Watson and Lord Hunt, and the noble Baroness, La...

What better way to spend it?

I hope that she will be pleased to hear that we plan to finish at 7.45 pm, so she will have time ...

I thank the Minister for that response and thank the noble Baroness, Lady Garden, for her contrib...

We do not intend to have any targets, but as I said, we intend there to be the expectation that t...

Yes, but that is a bit woolly. Students have always had the opportunity; the point is that certai...

Moved by

Baroness Garden of Frognal

10: After Clause 1, insert the following new Clau...

The amendment is in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Storey. I have previously raised con...

My Lords, there is virtue in encompassing all this sort of education within one structure. I do n...

My Lords, I add only one very small point: it seems to me that part of the problem with the estee...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Garden of Frognal, and the noble Lord, Lord S...

Before the noble Baroness responds, I have two points. The Minister quoted from the Sainsbury rev...

My Lords, I am sorry that this has become more complicated to involve occupational maps and route...

I shall be delighted to have a very technical conversation with the noble Baroness about this. I ...

With that, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Baker of Dorking

11: After Clause 1, insert the following new Clause—