Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]

I rise to support this amendment. This is such an important issue, but I can see that is difficul...

I support what my noble friends Lady Wilcox and Lady Morris have said. I strongly support the cas...

My Lords, I intended to support Amendment 40A. I am not sure whether the noble Lord, Lord Baker, ...

The noble Lord, Lord Baker, has dropped out; Amendment 40A has not dropped out.

If the noble Baroness wishes to speak to Amendment 40A, she is entitled to do so.

I am delighted to have the opportunity to support Amendment 40A—and I hope it will be moved. It i...

My Lords, I am in favour of both Amendment 8, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Watson, and Amendmen...

My Lords, I declare my interest as a non-executive director of the Careers & Enterprise Company. ...

My Lords, I aim to speak succinctly in my contribution and hope that other noble Lords will follo...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for the engagement that we have had since the first day of...

I agree with my noble friend Lord Liddle that local authorities and devolved Administrations are ...

I cannot call Amendment 10, as it is an amendment to Amendment 9.

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 12. Anyone wishing to press this or anything el...

Moved by

Lord Watson of Invergowrie

12: Clause 1, page 2, line 20, at end insert—

My Lords, it gives me pleasure to welcome the noble Baroness, Lady Penn, to the Dispatch Box for ...

The noble Lord, Lord Adonis, is not in the Chamber so I call the noble Lord, Lord Liddle.

My Lords, I support this amendment. However, I would just like to say, with great respect to the ...

I call the noble Lord, Lord Young of Norwood Green. The noble Lord is not online, so I call the n...

May I say to whoever’s job it is, it would be useful to have list of people who have withdrawn fr...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Berridge, has rather pre-empted some of what I intended to say...

My Lords, as already discussed, local skills improvement plans will be developed by employer repr...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response. I was very taken by the comment by my noble frie...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 15. Anyone wishing to press this or anything el...

Moved by

Lord Lucas

15: Clause 1, page 2, line 27, after “required” insert “by employ...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 33 and 85. All three amendments in this group address ...

My Lords, I support these amendments. This Bill is full of good intentions and starts with a lot ...

I wholly support what my noble friend Lady Morris has said. There is an emphasis on local skills ...

My Lords, I speak to Amendment 85 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, and the noble Barone...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Sheehan. Like her, I will spe...

My Lords, I am glad to have the opportunity to speak in support of Amendment 85 in particular, to...

My Lords, I support these three amendments in the names of the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, and others...

My Lords, as last week, I have added my name to Amendments 15 and 33 in the name of the noble Lor...

My Lords, we welcome the amendments and congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, and the noble Ba...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, for tabling these amendments. We completely agree w...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for her extensive reply and to other noble Lords for t...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 27. Anyone wishing to press this or anything el...

Moved by

Lord Aberdare

27: Clause 1, page 2, line 33, at end insert—

“(8) The S...

My Lords, I am pleased to move Amendment 27, originally in the name of my noble friend Lord Patel...

My Lords, I find myself in a difficult situation with these amendments. I listened carefully to t...

My Lords, we should all take notice of what my noble friend Lord Young of Norwood Green says on t...

My Lords, I support Amendment 27 in the names of the noble Lords, Lord Patel and Lord Aberdare, a...

Amendment 30 requires that the Secretary of State must publish LSIPs and distribute them to schoo...

My Lords, I am grateful to be able to speak to this group of amendments relating to publication a...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken and the Minister for her response. This is a Bi...

We now come to the group consisting of Amendment 39. Anyone wishing to press this amendment to a ...

Moved by

Lord Addington

39: After Clause 4, insert the following new Clause—

“R...

My Lords, in speaking on this bit of the Bill and this amendment, I feel like the reserve coming ...

I call the noble Lord, Lord Young of Norwood Green. No? I call the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-R...

My Lords, it is an unexpected pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Addington, with his straigh...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe. I suspect that...

We will go back to the noble Lord, Lord Young of Norwood Green, to see whether he wishes to parti...

Thank you, my Lords. I apologise that, on the previous occasion, I committed the offence of forge...

My Lords, this seems to be our only opportunity, in considering the Bill, to mention the words “a...

My Lords, now that I have de-masked myself, I will first make two remarks to the noble Lord, Lord...

I have received no requests to speak after the Minister so I call the noble Lord, Lord Addington,...

I believe that the noble Baroness, Lady Neville-Rolfe, wanted to come in.

Forgive me.

I have a quick question for clarification. I think what the Minister is saying is that she wants ...

My Lords, I believe the Government are aiming for quality and quantity when it comes to apprentic...

My Lords, this has been one of those slightly odd debates. One thing that we have established is ...

My Lords, we now move to the group beginning with Amendment 41. Anyone wishing to press this or a...

Moved by

Lord Addington

41: Clause 5, page 5, line 33, leave out “from time to time” ...

My Lords, I almost feel that the noble Lord, Lord Lingfield—indeed, as we discovered in a debate ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 43, 44, 45 and 46 and, in doing so, remind noble Lords of m...

My Lords, the next three speakers—the noble Lords, Lord Adonis, Lord Young of Norwood Green and L...

My Lords, I first need to declare my interest as chair of the National Society. I should also apo...

My Lords, my role in this group is really to add support to my noble friend Lord Addington, who k...

My Lords, I am sure I am not alone in finding that there are times when I come across something t...

My Lords, Clause 5 places a duty on governing bodies of institutions within the further education...

I have received one request to speak after the Minister from the noble Lord, Lord Lingfield.

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for her reply. I understand the Government’s views. I ...

My Lords, I think we are in agreement on the importance of special educational needs being includ...

My Lords, I have now received a second request to speak after the Minister from the noble Lord, L...

My Lords, this has been an interesting debate. My probing amendment got the reply, “Yes, we actua...

We now move to the group beginning with Amendment 47. Anyone wishing to press this or anything el...

Moved by

Lord Watson of Invergowrie

47: Clause 6, page 6, line 9, leave out subsectio...

My Lords, I think it fair to say that more than a little concern has been expressed about the rol...

My Lords, Amendment 47A requires that:

“In performing its functions in relation to technica...

My Lords, in speaking to Amendments 51 and 53 in my name, my job has been made a great deal easie...

I will speak to Amendment 54 in my name. I reflect some of the concerns that have already been ex...

The noble Lord, Lord Adonis, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Lord, Lord Baker of Dorking.

My Lords, I shall speak to the amendment that my noble friend Lord Willetts has just spoken to an...

The noble Baroness, Lady Fox, and the noble Lord, Lord Young, have both withdrawn, so I call the ...

My Lords it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Baker of Dorking, who has done so much t...

My Lords, I very much share the concerns of the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett, and my noble friends L...

The noble Lord, Lord Liddle, has withdrawn, so I call the noble Lord, Lord Addington.

My Lords, this is one of those occasions where I thought I knew what I was going to say before th...

My Lords, these amendments relate to the measures that support the implementation of the Governme...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for doing what she always does and giving comprehensive replies to...

My Lords, we now come to the group consisting of Amendment 59. Anyone wishing to press this amend...

Moved by

Baroness Wilcox of Newport

59: After Clause 13, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, I am moving this amendment in the name of my noble friend Lord Watson and, with the scr...

My Lords, this amendment, so ably moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Wilcox, raises an issue that ...

My Lords, the external quality assurance of apprenticeships’ end-point assessment is a vital tool...

I thank the Minister for the further explanation. I will analyse it in greater detail when I read...

We now come to the group consisting of Amendment 62. Anyone wishing to press this amendment to a ...

Moved by

Lord Addington

62: Clause 16, page 19, line 9, at end insert—

“(2A) Re...

My Lords, the intention of this amendment is straightforward. It is to probe and clarify. When yo...

My Lords, once again, I pay tribute to my noble friend Lord Addington on special educational need...

My Lords, I am pleased to signify our support for Amendment 62 and commend the passion with which...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Addington, for this amendment. It highlights the ...

My Lords, this is an odd one. Actually, I do not think that response really hit it, because there...

I will briefly respond to the noble Lord, because I do not think I will get the opportunity to ta...

I thank the Minister for bending the rules quite positively there. There will be a continuation o...

We now come to the group beginning with Amendment 63. Anyone wishing to press this or anything el...

Moved by

Lord Lucas

63: Clause 17, page 20, line 22, at end insert—

“and,