Technical and Further Education Bill

My Lords, I support the amendment. The Bill has cross-party support; it is potentially the greate...

My Lords, I also support the amendment and share its concern for the small but important group of...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 14 and to Amendment 16, which is linked to that, and will say...

My Lords, I support Amendment 16, to which I have added my name. It is very clear that many young...

My Lords, I too will speak mainly on Amendment 16, spoken to by my noble friend Lady Wolf, althou...

My Lords, noble Lords may remember that I spoke some weeks ago on this Bill at Second Reading and...

My Lords, I am very pleased to be able today to speak about this legislation, which will help lay...

I wonder whether the Minister is going to respond to the point I made about apprenticeship pay. A...

The noble Lord has raised that before. As we discussed at that time, it is illegal to pay below t...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response and all noble Lords who have participated in this...

Moved by

Lord Watson of Invergowrie

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

My Lords, again, this is an issue that we considered in Committee. Indeed, it was also discussed ...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 21 in this group, which is in my name and those of my noble f...

My Lords, I support these amendments. They are very reasonable and it is difficult to find too ma...

My Lords, I entirely agree with what the noble Baroness, Lady Morris of Yardley, has just said. A...

My Lords, we have not had very much information about what the annual statement from the Institut...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords and the noble Baroness for the amendments on reporting...

I thank the Minister for his comprehensive reply—almost half the debate on this group of amendmen...

Moved by

Lord Young of Norwood Green

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

My Lords, in moving Amendment 4, I shall also speak to Amendments 7 and 19 in my name. Amendments...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Young of Norwood Green for submitting these amendments. I ...

My Lords, I would certainly like an apprentice who is having a hard time getting what they

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My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Young and Lord Watson, for tabling this group of...

I welcome a lot of what the Minister has been saying, but is that formal signing process taking p...

Unfortunately, I am unable to clarify that at the moment, but I will write to the noble Lord. I w...

Can my noble friend say whether the apprenticeship documents that an apprentice receives include ...

Again, I am unable to confirm that, but I will write to my noble friend. If not, I think perhaps ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her comments. A number of them seem extremely helpful. I am ap...

Moved by

Lord Young of Norwood Green

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

This is another area about which we have had a significant amount of dialogue with the Government...

The noble Lord, Lord Young, has tempted me, because I, too, bear the scars of the diploma, GNVQ a...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Young for moving this amendment, which I am happy to suppo...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Watson and Lord Young, for tabling this amendmen...

I listened carefully to what the Minister said but am not sure that it entirely dealt with the tr...

Moved by

Baroness Garden of Frognal

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

My Lords, Amendment 6 is in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Storey. I will also speak to...

My Lords, I add my support to the amendments in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Garden. If I...

My Lords, I rarely disagree with the noble Baroness, Lady Garden, on technical education, where I...

My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to debate the amendments in this group. I thank all noble Lor...

I would like some clarification. The Minister said that the Sainsbury panel identified low-skille...

I thank the noble Lord for his intervention. I think it is unhelpful to try to put things into th...

I thank the Minister for her reply. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, for raising the matter of...

I warmly support what the noble Baroness is saying. It is not only lower-level qualifications; th...

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Baker, for his comments. I am pleased that I am not the only one who...

Moved by

Lord Lucas

8: Clause 2, page 2, line 14, after “providers” insert “, or pers...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 9. These amendments are very simple. They pick up on my...

Amendment 17 is in my name and those of the noble Lord, Lord Watson, and my noble friend Lady Gar...

My Lords, I support Amendment 17 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Storey. It is widely recogni...

My noble friend Lord Lucas’s amendments are an addition to the clause that I introduced in Commit...

My Lords, with Amendment 17, I am in the slightly alarming position of being the meat in a Libera...

My Lords, I would like to ask a question that has just come to mind, mainly because I tabled a si...

My Lords, I had not intended to speak on Amendment 17, but I was on the Social Mobility Select Co...

My Lords, if you want to change attitudes in schools and colleges, one of the most powerful influ...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for tabling the amendments, which relate to careers. I have to say ...

My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend for his short CPD session, which I hope I shall m...

Moved by

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

10: Clause 24, page 12, line 19, leave out “(if ...

I can be very brief. I am delighted to be able to say that, because the procedures followed on th...

My Lords, I am grateful for these amendments. I have made it clear that our priority in introduci...

Tabled by

Baroness Wolf of Dulwich

16: After Clause 35, insert the following new Clau...

I note that the Minister did not reply to my amendment in his response, and I hope we can have fu...

Moved by

Lord Storey

17: After Clause 40, insert the following new Clause—

“Fur...

I listened carefully to the Minister’s reply, for which I am grateful, but I do not think he went...

Moved by

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

18: Before Clause 41, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, we had a very interesting debate in Committee about the role of clerks in FE institutio...

My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to continue our discussion in Committee, about the importance...

My Lords, as the Minister mentioned the ETF, I remind the House of my declaration that my wife is...

Moved by

Lord Lucas

22: Schedule 1, page 26, line 4, at end insert—

“( ) The gr...

There has been a problem with apprenticeships, at least historically, where people have wanted to...

I support my noble friend’s amendment. I suspect that individual apprentices will work on the bas...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Lucas for this amendment, the effect of which wou...

My Lords, I am mostly comforted by my noble friend’s reference to employer-led matters. If that i...

Moved by

Baroness Garden of Frognal

23: Schedule 1, page 27, line 14, at end insert “...

My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 23 in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Storey. The Gove...

My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to discuss Amendment 23, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady G...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply. He said that the same people will be testing and as...

Moved by

Baroness Garden of Frognal

24: Schedule 1, page 28, line 37, leave out “the ...

My Lords, I will also speak to Amendments 26 and 29 to 33, which are in my name and those of the ...

My Lords, I completely support the amendment in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Garden. I do...

My Lords, I wish to say a few words about this group. My name appears on seven of the nine amendm...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness and the noble Lords for tabling these amendments. I...

I am grateful for what my noble friend said on my amendments, but to turn to the main group, wher...

My Lords, I, too, thank the Minister for her full reply on all this, but I am left as confused as...

Can we be clear that this can be brought back at Third Reading and that we can have a debate on p...

Yes. It will definitely come back at Third Reading.

There is no guarantee at all because the clerks are tight about what they will allow. The Governm...

I should make it clear that if the noble Baroness and the noble Lord wish to test the temperature...

We were hoping that we could have a dialogue about this because these matters are key to the succ...