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HANSARDHome and Online SchoolingI share many of the noble Baroness’s concerns. On her first point, we believe there are three main reasons why parents might decide to educate their children at home. The first is…19 Dec 2023HANSARDHome and Online SchoolingI do not want to say that every single child has a named place, as children can move around and there can be a time lag, but obviously it is the right of every child in this…19 Dec 2023HANSARDEquality Act 2010 (Amendment) Regulations 2023My Lords—or my Ladies— I am grateful to the noble Baroness for speaking in this debate. I would like to recognise her work on women and equalities over many years. Britain has a…13 Dec 2023HANSARDEquality Act 2010 (Amendment) Regulations 2023My Lords, this instrument was laid on 7 November 2023 and debated last Wednesday in the other place. Its purpose is to reproduce select interpretive effects of retained EU law in…13 Dec 2023HANSARDEquality Act 2010 (Amendment) Regulations 2023That the Grand Committee do consider the Equality Act 2010 (Amendment) Regulations 2023. Relevant document: 3rd Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee13 Dec 2023HANSARDUniversities: Nuclear Energy Sector SkillsMy noble friend makes a good point. I share her appreciation for the organisations that she named. We are investing £50 million over the next two years to pilot ways in which to…07 Dec 2023HANSARDSchools: SafeguardingMy Lords, I join other noble Lords in thanking my noble friend Lady Jenkin of Kennington for securing this debate on the importance of safeguarding in our schools. Your Lordships…07 Dec 2023HANSARDUniversities: Nuclear Energy Sector SkillsIt depends what the noble Baroness means by the nuclear energy sector. There are some big and strategic employers, and we can see regionally—in places such as Cumbria,…07 Dec 2023HANSARDUniversities: Nuclear Energy Sector SkillsMy Lords, we recognise the significant demand for skills in the nuclear sector, which are crucial to reaching net zero. We have allocated more than half of the £1.5 billion…07 Dec 2023HANSARDUniversities: Nuclear Energy Sector SkillsI am aware, as are the Government more broadly, of the shortages and pressures that the noble Lord rightly refers to; he understands that those are global pressures as well as…07 Dec 2023HANSARDUniversities: Nuclear Energy Sector SkillsThe Government feel that we have made major commitments in this area. We committed up to £385 million to an advanced nuclear fund to provide funding for small modular reactor…07 Dec 2023HANSARDUniversities: Nuclear Energy Sector SkillsI thank the noble Lord. I would be delighted to meet with him and, I hope, include the Skills Minister. I am sure we would learn very much from the noble Lord’s expertise in this…07 Dec 2023HANSARDUniversities: Nuclear Energy Sector SkillsThe noble Lord is right that we need more PhDs, but we need skills at every level. That is where the Government’s strategy is focusing, starting in schools and building through…07 Dec 2023HANSARDUniversities: Nuclear Energy Sector SkillsThe noble Viscount will have to forgive me; I am not familiar with the details on that, but I would be happy to write to him.07 Dec 2023HANSARDUniversities: Nuclear Energy Sector SkillsI absolutely do not accept that the UK Government are not on track to meet their climate targets. We are ahead of every other major nation, as the noble Earl knows. We are also…07 Dec 2023HANSARDEarly Years EducationI would be delighted to write about that and all the other issues that I have not had time to cover this evening. I close by thanking your Lordships for their thoughtful…30 Nov 2023HANSARDEarly Years EducationMy Lords, on behalf of these Benches, I express my sadness at the untimely death of Lord Darling. We can have some small insight into the extraordinary pressure that he must have…30 Nov 2023HANSARDEarly Years EducationIt has already been extended to the nursery sector. We are way ahead. But this is an important point because it sets children off in the way we hope they will continue: with a…30 Nov 2023HANSARDJobs Market: GraduatesI am not aware of the detail as to whether there is a mismatch between those with science degrees, in particular physics degrees, and vacancies. My understanding is that the…27 Nov 2023HANSARDJobs Market: GraduatesI am always slightly baffled by this line of questioning, because when I look at the performance of our creative industries and the performing arts, I see that they are…27 Nov 2023