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HANSARD Pension Credit and Cost of Living Support GrantThank you, Mr Dowd. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Glasgow North East for her lengthy intervention, which enabled me to get another bottle of water. In answer to the hon.…26 Oct 2022HANSARD Pension Credit and Cost of Living Support GrantIt is a real pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Dowd. I hope that hon. Members will forgive me; I am losing my voice, but I will try to speak as clearly as I can into…26 Oct 2022HANSARD Pension Credit and Cost of Living Support GrantI thank the hon. Lady for her clarification. I have not heard any colleagues use that sort of language. I will answer her point in my speech. We continue to work closely with a…26 Oct 2022HANSARDPensions Dashboards (Prohibition of Indemnification) BillI am worried that I did not pay fulsome enough tribute to my predecessor in my speech. Stepping into a large brief such as this is a daunting exercise, but to have handed over to…26 Oct 2022HANSARDPensions Dashboards (Prohibition of Indemnification) BillI thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. We expect that, during the course of next year, all the requisite data will be pulled together from pension funds and assembled on…26 Oct 2022HANSARD Pension Credit and Cost of Living Support GrantI certainly pay tribute to the last Labour Government, as well as the Pensions Commission, which had cross-party support, and the support of organisations such as the Centre for…26 Oct 2022HANSARDTributes to Her Late Majesty The QueenIt is a real honour to be called in this debate, on a day when there have been so many moving contributions from both sides of the House. I cannot help but feel that, once again,…09 Sept 2022HANSARDNew Pylons: East AngliaI extend my condolences to my hon. Friend at this time. My hon. Friend is making an important speech. Does he agree that it is hard for us to explain to our constituents why an…19 Jul 2022HANSARDColleges and Employers: CollaborationI thank the hon. Lady for her question. As she will know, we are currently reviewing level 3 qualifications. The overlap list was published a couple of months ago, and we will be…04 Jul 2022HANSARDTechnical QualificationsThat is absolutely right. I was delighted that Grantham College got £3 million to upgrade its facilities. My hon. Friend is right on the button to say that it is not just “degree…04 Jul 2022HANSARDColleges and Employers: CollaborationThe roll-out of new local skills improvement plans will forge new relationships between employers and the providers of skills to ensure that we have not only the right…04 Jul 2022HANSARDFurther Education EstateI thank my hon. Friend for his interest in this agenda. I would be delighted to meet him and his college.04 Jul 2022HANSARDFurther Education EstateI was delighted to visit New City College during Education World Forum week. I took a number of Education Ministers from across the world there to see its excellent facilities and…04 Jul 2022HANSARDFurther Education EstateIn our manifesto in 2019, we said that we would upgrade the FE college estate. We set £1.5 billion aside to do that. I am afraid that I am not in a position to comment on the…04 Jul 2022HANSARDColleges and Employers: CollaborationMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. Local skills improvement plans, drawn up by employer representative bodies, will start to bring about that collaboration. There are already…04 Jul 2022HANSARDTechnical QualificationsWe are reforming technical education to ensure that all post-16 students have access to technical options that support progression and meet employer needs. That means that we are…04 Jul 2022HANSARDColleges and Employers: CollaborationMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. These closer collaborations between employers and providers are going to make sure that we have both the workforce and the experience in…04 Jul 2022HANSARDColleges and Employers: CollaborationI thank the hon. Gentleman for his support for T-levels in principle. T-levels are going extremely well, and we have very good uptake. The first year of T-levels was conducted in…04 Jul 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend for his question. He will know that it is local authorities, rather than the Department for Education, that have responsibility for transport to education.…04 Jul 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Lady is absolutely right that FE colleges are engines of social mobility, and we are well aware of the pressures that they are under. We are engaging constantly with the…04 Jul 2022