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HANSARDUniversities: Impact of Industrial Action on StudentsObviously, the noble Baroness brings many years of expertise to this matter, but I think that employers in universities and other sectors of the economy are suffering great…16 Mar 2023HANSARDUniversities: Impact of Industrial Action on StudentsI am sympathetic to the points that the noble Lord makes, but, as the House is aware, universities are autonomous. As autonomous institutions, they are responsible for pay and…16 Mar 2023HANSARDUniversities: Impact of Industrial Action on StudentsUniversities have obligations under their conditions of registration and under consumer law. Students can make complaints to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator. There were…16 Mar 2023HANSARDUniversities: Impact of Industrial Action on StudentsWhat I am saying is that we established the Office for Students to ensure that students’ interests are respected and upheld. The Government have no direct role in relation to the…16 Mar 2023HANSARDSchools: Data, Digital and Financial LiteracyI absolutely agree with my noble friend that all those are critical skills, and that is why they are woven through the curriculum at all stages, and why we put particular emphasis…14 Mar 2023HANSARDSchools: Data, Digital and Financial LiteracyThe noble Lord makes a broader point. Many of those issues are indeed covered in the curriculum. Specifically in relation to financial choices, there is dedicated time to look at…14 Mar 2023HANSARDSchools: Data, Digital and Financial LiteracyOur Online Safety Bill goes a long way to addressing the concerns that the noble Lord rightly raises, but I should like to reassure him that some of that is also reinforced by the…14 Mar 2023HANSARDSchools: Data, Digital and Financial LiteracyI have the advantage of having the citizenship curriculum in front of me. I should like to reassure the noble Baroness and the House that it absolutely covers the issues that she…14 Mar 2023HANSARDSchools: Data, Digital and Financial LiteracyI am very sympathetic to the issues that my noble friend raises, but our approach to these issues has been to weave them through multiple aspects of the curriculum. My noble…14 Mar 2023HANSARDSchools: Data, Digital and Financial LiteracyI am very happy to take my noble friend’s suggestion back to the department.14 Mar 2023HANSARDSchools: Data, Digital and Financial LiteracyThat is exactly what the department is doing with its T-levels.14 Mar 2023HANSARDSchools: Data, Digital and Financial LiteracyThe right reverend Prelate raises an important point. Certainly, when I was talking to a number of young people recently, they raised exactly the same issues as he does. I do not…14 Mar 2023HANSARDSchools: Data, Digital and Financial LiteracyIf one looks from the other end of the telescope, the noble Earl will be aware that the Government were proactive during Covid in making sure that children who could not access a…14 Mar 2023HANSARDSchools: Data, Digital and Financial LiteracyMy Lords, data, digital and financial literacy all feature in compulsory national curriculum subjects. For example, data literacy is covered within mathematics, science, computing…14 Mar 2023HANSARDSchools: Data, Digital and Financial LiteracyI have heard of it, but I would also be delighted to meet them. Just to repeat, at the earliest stage, at key stage 1, the compulsory curriculum includes helping children…14 Mar 2023HANSARDSchools: Data, Digital and Financial LiteracyI thank the noble Lord for the question. He is aware that the Government are very committed to improving the quality of our skills offer, hence the reforms we have made at level 3…14 Mar 2023HANSARDInternational Women’s DayThe noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, has put it well: it was meant in the spirit of this debate. I thank my noble friend very much for welcoming our announcement this week,…10 Mar 2023HANSARDInternational Women’s DayMy Lords, I thank all noble Baronesses and noble Lords who have spoken today. In particular, I welcome my noble friend Lady Lampard; like hers, my mother was both a refugee and an…10 Mar 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillIt is the employer, so the employer in the case of a local authority-maintained school—which is about 60% of our primary schools and about 20% of our secondary schools—would be…09 Mar 2023HANSARDStrikes (Minimum Service Levels) BillMy understanding is that the policy in this area is perhaps more developed in health, where I understand a public consultation has been published in relation to ambulance workers.…09 Mar 2023