Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]

My Lords, I think there has been a regrouping; I was about to speak on an amendment that seems to...

My Lords, I have also added my name to Amendment 45A from the noble Lord, Lord Watson. During the...

My Lords, I slightly unexpectedly find myself to be the first person to speak to Amendment 40 in ...

My Lords, as this is my first speech on Report, I welcome the noble Baroness, Lady Barran, to her...

My Lords, as the Bill before us today is about education, I hope that noble Lords will not mind m...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Wilcox of Newport, for reminding us of the tragedy of ...

I thank the Minister for all her comments. I beg leave to withdraw Amendment 36.

Moved by

Baroness Barran

37: Clause 15, page 18, line 17, leave out “In section 83(1)...

Moved by

Lord Addington

44: After Clause 15, insert the following new Clause—

“...

My Lords, I have two amendments in this group, and I welcome the support of the right reverend Pr...

My Lords, this is my first opportunity to welcome the Minister to her new role, and, indeed, the ...

My Lords, these are really important amendments from my noble friend Lord Addington, and I hope t...

These amendments would place a duty on the Secretary of State to ensure that there is sufficient ...

My Lords, I start by thanking the noble Lord, Lord Addington, for his advocacy for learners with ...

My Lords, here we go again. They say that they will take out pupils if they spot them, they will ...

My Lords, I did mean to mention that, so I apologise. There will be details on continuous profess...

I thank the Minister for sharing her notes. It is clear that her department does not get what I a...

Moved by

The Lord Bishop of Durham

45: After Clause 15, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 45, tabled in my name, and I am grateful to the noble Baro...

I will speak on Amendments 62 and 63, and thank the noble Lords, Lord Blunkett, Lord Aberdare and...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 62 from the noble Lord, Lord Storey, and I seem to ha...

My Lords, I rise with great pleasure to offer my support to Amendment 45 in the name of the right...

My Lords, I am grateful to the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Durham and all noble Lords wh...

My Lords, I thank the right reverend Prelate, the noble Lords, Lord Storey and Lord Aberdare, and...

I am very grateful to the Minister for her responses and for clarifying the situation. I am very ...

Moved by

Baroness Wilcox of Newport

45A: After Clause 15, insert the following new Cl...

My Lords, I would like to test the opinion of the House.

Moved by

Lord Addington

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

“(2A) Re...

My Lords, I beg leave to test the opinion of the House.

Moved by

Lord Lucas

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

“(e) the me...

My Lords, the origins of this, for me, lie 10 years ago, when one of my work colleagues was rung ...

My Lords, obviously the House is deeply sympathetic to the points made by the noble Lord, Lord Lu...

My Lords, I added my name to the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, which is self-explanato...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, for introducing his Amendment 47. I will comment on...

My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to speak to our measures on the Office for Students’ ...

My Lords, when the Minister looks at the record, she may find that she has not been able to answe...

I shall be delighted to write.

My Lords, I am very grateful for my noble friend’s answer, which included just the words that I w...

Moved by

Baroness Barran

49: Clause 18, page 22, line 14, at end insert—

“(c) c...

Moved by

Lord Clarke of Nottingham

50: After Clause 21, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, this amendment was tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Layard, and myself. We discussed it i...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 60 on the lifetime guarantee tabled by the noble Lord...

I support Amendment 50, which could transform the lives of hundreds of thousands of our young peo...

My Lords, I agree with every word of what my noble friend Lord Layard and the noble and learned L...

My Lords, I fully support what the noble Lord, Lord Layard, described as the first half of Amendm...

My Lords, I have not participated in any of the proceedings on this Bill, partly because I chair ...

My Lords, I had not come to speak in this debate but to listen. However, some things said by my n...

It is very serious.

It is serious, as my noble friend Lord Forsyth knows better than most. Not only is it serious but...

My Lords, I rise to agree with almost everything that has been said about the importance of appre...

My Lords, the Queen’s Speech promised that legislation would support a lifetime skills guarantee ...

My Lords, I thank my noble and learned friend Lord Clarke and the noble Lord, Lord Watson, for th...

I am most grateful to my noble friend. It is fantastic that she has listed all these initiatives,...

I am sorry; I thought that I was clear in my remarks. We are already delivering the policy and th...

But—

If my noble friend will allow me to finish, I will come on to talk about some of the wider issues...

I do not wish to press too hard on this, but Governments are here today, gone tomorrow, and Minis...

My noble friend is quite within his rights to press me and the Government as hard as he sees fit,...

I am sorry—I know that the point has been made—but I find this an extraordinary approach to legis...

I think that the Government’s priority is to see this measure working in practice. Many of your L...

I apologise. We are all on the same side here. I understand my noble friend’s powers personally a...

I can assure my noble friend absolutely that I am in regular and detailed dialogue with my minist...

My Lords, my noble friend kept thanking us all for introducing these amendments, which is very ki...

Moved by

Baroness Barran

51: Clause 22, page 26, line 32, after “provides” insert “En...

I call the noble Baroness, Lady Barran, to move Amendment 53.

Sorry, this group is for my noble friend Lady Chisholm.

Amendment 53

Moved by

Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen

53: Before Clause 25, insert the following new C...

I think we have all been in this Chamber for too long today, my Lords, and the brains are not wor...

My Lords, I take note of the point made by the Minister and will not detain the Chamber for long....

My Lords, I rise to speak on the issue of essay mills and contract cheating. I thank the Minister...

My Lords, I, too, strongly welcome the amendments tabled in the names of the noble Baroness, Lady...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing the government amendments and all noble Lords who ...

I thank noble Lords for their comments. There is clear support across the House for these amendme...

I will remind the Minister, but I am happy for her to write. My questions were about who commits ...

On how this will work in practice, an enforcement body is not specified on the face of the Bill a...

Moved by

Baroness Barran

54: Before Clause 25, insert the following new Clause—