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HANSARDRelationships, Sex and Health Education: Statutory GuidanceI understand and have a lot of sympathy with the question my noble friend raises. All I can say at this stage is that this guidance, and the consultation which follows, is sending…16 May 2024HANSARDRelationships, Sex and Health Education: Statutory GuidanceMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness and the noble Earl for their remarks. I will start with the remarks of the noble Earl, Lord Russell, who said, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix…16 May 2024HANSARDRelationships, Sex and Health Education: Statutory GuidanceThe process in terms of timing is that the guidance is out for consultation. Then we will finalise it and, when it is finally published, schools will have a period in which to…16 May 2024HANSARDRelationships, Sex and Health Education: Statutory GuidanceI thank my noble friend for her question. She is right that Oak National Academy is collaborating with Life Lessons Education to develop new relationships and health education in…16 May 2024HANSARDSkills: Importance for the UK Economy and Quality of LifeThe skills gap numbers that I cited were in relation to global skills gaps. The point I was making was that this is not a uniquely UK problem in relation to skills; it is a global…09 May 2024HANSARDSkills: Importance for the UK Economy and Quality of LifeIt will. I turn to the wider points raised about the curriculum by my noble friends Lady Sater and Lord Effingham, the noble Lord, Lord Hampton, and the noble Earl, Lord…09 May 2024HANSARDSkills: Importance for the UK Economy and Quality of LifeMy Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords across the Chamber for their contributions. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Aberdare, for securing this very important and well-supported…09 May 2024HANSARDPeriod PovertyMy Lords, the Government do not have specific data on period poverty, but we understand that women and girls are impacted by the cost of period products. That is why we abolished…07 May 2024HANSARDFaith Schools: Impact of Removing Admissions CapTo be clear, and to avoid upsetting my noble friend Lord Baker one more time, the changes we are proposing in relation to special schools will not affect eligibility. Eligibility…07 May 2024HANSARDFaith Schools: Impact of Removing Admissions CapI am very happy to confirm that.07 May 2024HANSARDFaith Schools: Impact of Removing Admissions CapThe vast majority of our faith schools have children of different faiths. It is typically only in schools for the smallest-minority faiths that one has a concentration of children…07 May 2024HANSARDPeriod PovertyLast month, the National Institute for Health and Care Research announced more than £100 million of funding to 20 policy research units, including a new unit dedicated to…07 May 2024HANSARDFaith Schools: Impact of Removing Admissions CapWith the greatest respect to my noble friend, I think there may be a slight misunderstanding, so it might perhaps help the House if I explain what the Government are proposing.…07 May 2024HANSARDFaith Schools: Impact of Removing Admissions CapI thank the noble Lord for his comments and echo his remarks about the ethnic diversity in our faith schools. I agree with him that faith schools can and do offer the very…07 May 2024HANSARDPeriod PovertyThe department works regularly with the devolved Administrations, and we are always happy to learn from others.07 May 2024HANSARDFaith Schools: Impact of Removing Admissions CapThe number of additional places will depend on levels of basic need where there are not enough school places available. The noble Baroness well knows that in some parts of the…07 May 2024HANSARDPeriod PovertyThe department is well aware that women in the workplace miss extra days of work, suffer pain and stay in the workplace in considerable discomfort. Our experience is that…07 May 2024HANSARDPeriod PovertyWith regard to the first part of my noble friend’s question, we are aware of how important the scheme is in schools, with 99% of secondary schools having placed an order since it…07 May 2024HANSARDPeriod PovertyMy noble friend makes a good and poignant point about talking to young people in their own language and on their own terms and, as he says, using social media to reach them. We…07 May 2024HANSARDPeriod PovertyI am not aware that we have done international research in this area, but I am aware, as I mentioned in my initial Answer, that in schools, hospitals and prisons now there is free…07 May 2024