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HANSARDEarly Years Provision: Bell ReviewTaking my noble friend back to the question on recruitment, will she consider that a number of the people who will be needed in the workforce are currently in full-time education?…21 Oct 2024HANSARDTax Reliefs: Theatre, Orchestra and Museums and Galleries ExhibitionMy Lords, I think that everybody has heard loud and clear from my noble friend that he cannot make commitments that are waiting on decisions in the Budget. However, when he is…15 Oct 2024HANSARDFilm IndustryMy Lords, of course the Statement that my noble friend has just repeated is very welcome. Although it builds on the work of the previous Government, much in it is to be commended.…10 Oct 2024HANSARDSchools: Mental Health and Poor AttendanceMy Lords, will my noble friend the Minister comment on what further work the Government plan to do specifically for young people with spectrum disorders, such as autism and ADHD?…24 Jul 2024HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, it is a pleasure and privilege to be speaking from these Benches again. In doing so, I remind the House of my relevant interests as a member of Middlesex Learning Trust,…19 Jul 2024HANSARDCovid-19 Pandemic: Educational AttainmentMy Lords, the Minister may recall that three years ago, a very distinguished educationalist who was appointed by the Government to make some recommendations on how to deal with…22 May 2024HANSARDHigher Education (Industry and Regulators Committee Report)My Lords, I am sorry to interrupt the Minister so near the end of the debate, but I am afraid that a Division has been called, so the Committee will have to adjourn. I advise…21 May 2024HANSARDInflammatory Bowel DiseaseMy Lords, the Minister has twice mentioned the bowel cancer screening programme, which I think is universally accepted to be very successful, and is also very reassuring to those…20 May 2024HANSARDRelationships, Sex and Health Education: Statutory GuidanceOn the point that the Minister has just raised about what happens if a child brings a problem to a teacher, rather than a teacher addressing the problem with the child, is she…16 May 2024HANSARDFolic Acid FortificationMy Lords, will the Minister clarify a point raised by my noble friend Lord Blunkett? I agree with his views, of course, but I was slightly troubled by the use of the term “mass…16 May 2024HANSARDImmunisation: ChildrenMy Lords, on the Wakefield effect, as the Minister called it, he will remember that the impact it had on a lot of people was very profound. In particular, some of that was…08 May 2024HANSARDExpansion of Free ChildcareMy Lords, the Minister has been asked many times about the apparent disconnection between the aspiration of this policy—which is admirable, as I have said before, and I think that…23 Apr 2024HANSARDCare Worker Visa RegimeMy Lords, given that the Minister in effect embedded the idea of care work being low paid, in the answer he gave earlier about salary caps in relation to visas, does he think that…23 Apr 2024HANSARDFarmers: Flooding CompensationMy Lords, will my noble friend look kindly on the fact that livestock farmers are unable to put their sheep and lambs on to the fields because the fields are simply too wet? That…16 Apr 2024HANSARDRegional Arts FacilitiesMy Lords, the Minister will know that, for the past 40 years—probably more—the arts sector in this country has been reliant principally on three sources of income: one is what it…27 Mar 2024HANSARDRegional Arts FacilitiesMy Lords—27 Mar 2024HANSARDAccounting Standards (Prescribed Bodies) (United States of America and Japan) (Amendment) Regulations 2024That completes the business before Grand Committee this afternoon. I wish a happy Easter to one and all.26 Mar 2024HANSARDCabinet ManualMy Lords, would the Minister care to revisit the answer she gave to her noble friend Lord Young of Cookham? Can she point the House to a single example in the recent past of a…25 Mar 2024HANSARDFree Childcare SchemeI really do not think that the House would wish to cast aspersions on the intention of this policy. Most people would think that it was good and worth supporting. However, can the…20 Mar 2024HANSARDIndependent SchoolsMy Lords, one thing is quite striking in listening to the answers in this Question. The thing that most independent schools have in common has barely been mentioned, with the…18 Mar 2024