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HANSARDLifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) BillMy Lords, I will respond to Amendment 2, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Garden of Frognal, and Amendment 5, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Twycross, and also in the names…10 Jul 2023HANSARDLifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) BillI will speak to Amendments 3 and 6, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Watson of Invergowrie, and also in the names of the noble Lords, Lord Addington and Lord Storey, and the noble…10 Jul 2023HANSARDLifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) BillI am familiar with what the current issue is and, if I express myself in any way inaccurately, I know that my colleagues will help me to write to the noble Lord and all your…10 Jul 2023HANSARDLifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) BillMy Lords, Amendment 7, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Twycross, and in the names of the noble Lord, Lord Addington, and the noble Baronesses, Lady Wilcox of Newport and Lady…10 Jul 2023HANSARDLifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) BillI shall be delighted to keep the House updated as we progress in whatever form is most useful.10 Jul 2023HANSARDLifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) BillMy Lords, Amendment 9, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Addington, would require the Office for Students to have regard to the need to provide information to students about the…10 Jul 2023HANSARDUnregistered SchoolsI really hope that I did not give the House any impression of complacency. There is no complacency where there are serious safeguarding concerns. There have been more than 1,000…05 Jul 2023HANSARDUnregistered SchoolsThe noble Baroness rightly cited the seven prosecutions; however, she did not repeat the statistic that 129 of the schools investigated have either closed or changed their…05 Jul 2023HANSARDIndustrial Training Levy (Engineering Construction Industry Training Board) Order 2023I thank the noble Baroness for her support for this order and for recognising the importance of skills training in this area. She paints a rather bleaker picture of the situation…05 Jul 2023HANSARDIndustrial Training Levy (Engineering Construction Industry Training Board) Order 2023That the Grand Committee do consider the Industrial Training Levy (Engineering Construction Industry Training Board) Order 2023.05 Jul 2023HANSARDUnregistered SchoolsI think that my noble friend knows that the Government’s position is that it would be best to have legislation in this area and to make the collection of this data mandatory. That…05 Jul 2023HANSARDUnregistered SchoolsIt is probably not a good use of the House’s time for me to repeat what the Government are already doing, but I reiterate that we are working closely with local authorities,…05 Jul 2023HANSARDUnregistered SchoolsThe Government need to strike a very delicate balance. I think we in this House would all agree that parents are ultimately responsible for ensuring that their children get a good…05 Jul 2023HANSARDUnregistered SchoolsMy understanding is that we would need primary legislation to address the specific instance in which schools are offering a purely religious education.05 Jul 2023HANSARDUnregistered SchoolsThe noble Lord raises a number of important points, and I think he would agree with me that the vast majority of religious schools deliver a safe and very valued service to the…05 Jul 2023HANSARDUnregistered SchoolsMy Lords, it is already an offence to conduct an unregistered school. The Government will always prosecute when it is in the public interest. We work closely with Ofsted to make…05 Jul 2023HANSARDUnregistered SchoolsThe Government absolutely recognise that there was cross-party support for this element of the Bill.05 Jul 2023HANSARDIndustrial Training Levy (Engineering Construction Industry Training Board) Order 2023My Lords, as the Committee will no doubt appreciate, the engineering construction sector is broad and a significant part of the UK economy. At the heart of the industry is its…05 Jul 2023HANSARDUnregistered SchoolsWe are obviously extremely concerned on their behalf. Children who receive the kind of exclusive religious education that the noble Baroness refers to often receive the rest of…05 Jul 2023HANSARDChildcare Reform PackageI think the right reverend Prelate meant to mention the first 1,000 days, but I heard “the first 1,000 years”, which sounded very biblical.29 Jun 2023