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HANSARDProtection of Children Codes of PracticeOn the point about evidence, I am absolutely not an expert in this but the noble Baroness, Lady Cass, definitely is. I think it would be a very good use of the Minister’s time to…30 Oct 2025HANSARDAntisemitism: UniversitiesThe Minister has referred a couple of times to the Office for Students’ new E6 powers. To reassure Jewish students, I hope, could the Minister set out how long it will take, if a…29 Oct 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I feel in a lonely position in not being able to thank the Government for their comments on my amendment. I feel sad that I have to speak again, as I hoped that the…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillOn the noble Lord’s last point about employers being able to retain their existing contracts, in the letter I received from the Minister, the noble Baroness, Lady Smith of…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI am sorry to intervene again on the Minister, but I asked this question specifically of the noble Baronesses, Lady Jones and Lady Smith, because that is what employers are…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I speak briefly to support, from the perspective of teachers, the comments by the noble Lord, Lord Fox. Of course, teachers and other front-line caring professionals…28 Oct 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Billat end insert “, and do propose Amendment 121B in lieu—28 Oct 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI thank the Minister for that clarification, but I take little reassurance from it, in particular the idea of what will happen in the next few years to the focus of the SSSNB. In…28 Oct 2025HANSARDAutistic Children: State SchoolsMy Lords, will the Minister clarify her response to her noble friend Lord Touhig, who I think I heard say that the Government need a strategy aimed at stopping exclusions? The…23 Oct 2025HANSARDPost-16 Education and Skills StrategyMy Lords, I thank the Government for this White Paper, which is an incredibly important and wide-ranging document. It is essential that we build the skills pipeline to turn around…22 Oct 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, this group focuses on the thorny issue of complaints. The amendments in the name of my noble friend Lord Jackson of Peterborough would introduce a new right of appeal…18 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill18 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I formally move the amendment in the name of my noble friend Lord Lucas and I will speak to it in my closing remarks.18 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillThis is risky, because I am doing this from memory. I appreciate that in earlier years, significant amounts of money were returned to the Treasury, but in the last year we were in…18 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillCan the noble Baroness say now, or write to me and put the letter in the Library, clarifying whether, in relation to simplification of the complaints system, which obviously the…18 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillWhen the Minister sends that letter, will she kindly clarify both the data protection and the child safety angles that she talked about, for which the Information Commissioner’s…18 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, this is a diverse group of amendments. Amendment 502M, tabled by my noble friends Lord Young of Acton and Lord Brady of Altrincham, is on the duty to keep schools open…18 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI beg leave to withdraw the amendment.18 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillShe said flu vaccination.18 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillNo. To be clear, of the many millions of pounds that were raised through the apprenticeship levy, the amount that was not spent on apprenticeships and was returned to the Treasury…18 Sept 2025