Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]

My Lords, I too wish the noble Baroness a happy birthday. I also look forward to hearing the maid...

My Lords, I welcome the Bill because it acknowledges the importance of skills and vocational lear...

My Lords, I warmly welcome the Bill. I begin by declaring my interests as chancellor of the Unive...

My Lords, I strongly endorse the previous speech, particularly as it notes the crazy distinction ...

My Lords, I congratulate the Government on bringing forward a Bill to address an area which, for ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her introduction to the Bill which, in many respects, I welcom...

I welcome the maiden speech of the noble Baroness, Lady Black of Strome.

3.14 pm

My Lords, it is a great honour to have been appointed to your Lordships’ House and to speak here ...

My Lords, it is a huge pleasure to follow such an outstanding maiden speech by my noble friend La...

My Lords, I too congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Black of Strome, on her extraordinarily fin...

My Lords, like other noble Lords, I welcome this Bill and endorse the Government’s decision to gi...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Black. In this House, we always enthusiasticall...

My Lords, this is one of those debate where I feel a degree of sympathy for the Minister, not onl...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Addington. It is an enormous pleasure t...

My Lords, I had a good education; what I have made of it is perhaps a different matter. Sixty yea...

My Lords, I first join others in congratulating the noble Baroness, Lady Black, on her maiden spe...

I too offer my congratulations to the noble Baroness, Lady Black, on her impressive and extremely...

My Lords, it may be worth noting that the Back-Bench advisory limit of six minutes per speaker wi...

The noble Baroness, Lady Lane-Fox of Soho, is appearing remotely. We can see her but we cannot he...

The noble Lord, Lord Puttnam, is sorting her out.

We will go to the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan of Cotes.

4.21 pm

My Lords, I am very sorry that we have not been able to hear the chair of the Covid-19 Committee,...

I hope that I can call the noble Baroness, Lady Lane-Fox of Soho.

4.29 pm

The irony clearly weighs heavy when I have wi-fi issues. I apologise, but the internet completely...

My Lords, what a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Lane-Fox, particularly in her last c...

My Lords, I add my congratulations to the noble Baroness, Lady Black, for a fantastic and fascina...

My Lords, I start by congratulating the noble Baroness, Lady Black, on her outstanding maiden spe...

My Lords, I declare my interest as chairman of the Baker Dearing trust. I have four comments on t...

My Lords, I would like to start by congratulating the noble Baroness, Lady Black, on her interest...

My Lords, we should really welcome this Bill, because, as we know, our country does a pretty good...

My Lords, I add my congratulations to the noble Baroness, Lady Black, on her excellent maiden spe...

My Lords, I add my warm congratulations to the noble Baroness, Lady Black of Strome—I am in awe. ...

My Lords, I welcome a Bill which focuses on lifelong learning and is committed to enhancing skill...

My Lords, I too welcome the noble Baroness, Lady Black of Strome, and congratulate her on an impr...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to take part in this debate. I begin, as many others have, by pa...

My Lords, it is a pleasure as always to follow one of the interesting speeches of the noble Lord,...

My Lords, the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill represents an opportunity to create a more agile ...

The noble Lord, Lord Flight, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Baroness, Lady Whitaker.

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My Lords, I join in the congratulations to the noble Baroness, Lady Black of Strome, for a most i...

My Lords, I join all noble Lords in thanking my noble friend the Minster for the way she introduc...

My Lords, I join in the congratulations to the noble Baroness, Lady Black of Strome, on her excel...

My Lords, I warmly welcome the Bill, which I believe is absolutely key to the recovery of our ind...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Black, on her outstanding maiden speech, and we...

My Lords, I am proud to be a fellow of City Lit, the leading adult education college in the count...

I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Black, on her speech.

Over half a century in Westmi...

My Lords, I declare an interest as a council member of City & Guilds. I am very much looking forw...

My Lords, the problem that the Bill addresses has been with us for a very long time. Our educatio...

My Lords, I, too, strongly welcome this important Bill. Skills are fundamental to our future well...

My Lords, I speak today to add my support for this Bill and to congratulate the noble Baroness, L...

My Lords, I agree very much with a lot of what the noble Baroness, Lady Stroud, has just said. Bu...

My Lords, following on from the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, I feel I should declare my FE experience...

My Lords, I declare my interests as a board member of the Capital City College Group and chair of...

My Lords, I declare my interest as chairman of the Royal Veterinary College and former chancellor...

My Lords, this has been an extraordinarily wide-ranging debate. I thank the Minister for her co-o...

My Lords, this has been a fascinating and in many ways stimulating debate. Perhaps that was inevi...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their contributions today; I appreciate the expert knowledge th...