Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]

My Lords, I declare an interest as editor of The Good Schools Guide and a member of City & Guilds...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the very clear introduction to this group from the noble Lor...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 11 and 81. I also support the first three amendments spoken...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 1 and 6, to which I have added my name, and to Amendment 20...

My Lords, this is one of those debates when everybody has said and everybody is going to agree wi...

My Lords, I support these amendments and the thrust of the debate so far, particularly with what ...

My Lords, this Bill is largely a Bill in search of a policy, and indeed a Bill that is a substitu...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, and I have argued over so many things over so many years t...

My Lords, I am not sure I will be able to match the bravura performances that this Committee has ...

My Lords, I very much support the aims of the Bill and of many of the amendments in this group, w...

My Lords, I regret that I did not participate in Second Reading, but perhaps, as somebody has alr...

My Lords, I am delighted to take part in this debate. I will address principally Amendment 81 but...

I ought first to declare an interest as a vice-president of the Local Government Association. I l...

My Lords, I draw attention to my interests as in the register. Amendment 17 seeks to ensure that ...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords for their contributions. Bearing in mind that question...

Will my noble friend give way?

Sorry, no. On Amendment 2 from the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, in relation to potential employe...

My Lords, I have received requests to speak after the Minister from the noble Lords, Lord Adonis ...

My Lords, the Minister said that over 40 applications for LSIP trailblazers have been received by...

The successful ones will be announced later on this month. There are no plans—and I clarify that ...

My Lords, the Minister did a noble job in trying to prevent us wanting to come back to these issu...

My Lords, I was smiling at the noble Lord because I asked this precise question about a national ...

My Lords, I am grateful for the noble Baroness’s response. I will read it carefully in Hansard. I...

My Lords, the point I was making was that the Bill does not mention being only at level 3, level ...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for her encyclopaedic reply to this long debate. In ...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 3. Anyone wishing to press this or anything els...

Moved by

Baroness Hayman

3: Clause 1, page 1, line 13, after “circumstances” insert “...

My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 3 and in doing so I declare my interest as co-chair of Peers fo...

Moved by

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle

4: At end insert “and the United Kingdom’s ...

My Lords, it is a very great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, who is doing suc...

My Lords, before I call the noble Lord, Lord Oates, I must inform the House that three noble Lord...

My Lords, I declare an interest as chair of the advisory group of Weber Shandwick UK. I support t...

My Lords, I believe there were a couple of additions to the speakers’ list. I believe that the no...

My Lords, thank you. I was confused, but I am happy to go with the flow.

This group of amen...

My Lords, I remind your Lordships of my interests in the register, particularly my advice to Purp...

I will speak in support of Amendment 25 in the names of the noble Baronesses, Lady Hayman, Lady S...

My Lords, we listened with interest to some rather engaging and forceful Second Reading speeches ...

My Lords, I would very much like to support what the noble Baroness, Lady Blackstone, has just sa...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly on this group to express my support in particular for Amendment, ...

My Lords, as a member of Peers for the Planet, I rise to support all the amendments in this group...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, has withdrawn from the debate, so I call the noble Barones...

My Lords, if there was an outbreak of consensus across the Committee on the previous amendments, ...

My Lords, I apologise for my confusion when I was mistakenly called earlier, and mistakenly respo...

My Lords, I have listened carefully to the many excellent contributions in this debate. Much has ...

My Lords, I think there is a theme here, with the noble Lord, Lord Aberdare, and the noble Barone...

My Lords, I have received no requests to speak after the Minister, so I call the noble Baroness, ...

My Lords, I thank everyone who has taken part in this very long and extremely important debate. I...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to all noble Lords who have taken part in the debate. I am glad...

My Lords, we now move to the group beginning with Amendment 5. Anyone wishing to press this or an...

Moved by

Lord Storey

5: Clause 1, page 1, line 14, leave out subsections (3) and (4) ...

My Lords, it is important for the development of these local skills improvement plans that the pa...

My Lords, I must inform the Committee that if Amendment 5 is agreed to, I will not be able to cal...

My Lords, I speak to Amendment 35 under my name. The amendment is designed to have a body that wi...

My Lords, I very much support the comments just made by the noble Lords, Lord Storey and Lord Pat...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, who is next on the list, has withdrawn from the debate. Sa...

My Lords, this is a little sooner than I expected. I put my name down to speak on this because, a...

My Lords, I am pleased to speak to this group of amendments, particularly Amendments 13 and 14. I...

The noble Lord, Lord Young of Norwood Green, has withdrawn from the debate, so I call the noble B...

My Lords, I was very sorry not to be able to speak at Second Reading, but I was present for some ...

I hope that the Minister will not, in her reply, dismiss this amendment out of hand and say it is...

My Lords, today’s debate has not progressed very fast in terms of groups, but we have covered a g...

My Lords, I was unable to speak at Second Reading, so I must now declare my interests as set out ...

My Lords, it is a great honour to follow the noble Lord, Lord Inglewood, whose experience of chai...

My Lords, my name was initially omitted from the list for this group. My reaction when I found I ...

My Lords, I shall aim to be brief, which may be welcome at this stage of the evening. I have adde...

My Lords, despite several noble Lords listed to speak falling by the wayside, I commend those nob...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for their contributions. I am optimistic about persuading ...

I have received one request to speak after the Minister. I call the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-...

I thank my noble friend for taking so much trouble to answer our questions. It is refreshing even...

Yes, as I have said, in the process of bidding for the trailblazers, we have allowed local geogra...

My Lords, I thank all Members for their wise contributions and the Minister for her very detailed...