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HANSARDCurriculum and Assessment ReviewI agree with the noble Earl that a high-quality arts education must not be just for the privileged few. It is ironic that the arts that have been forced out of state school…10 Nov 2025HANSARDEquality and Human Rights Commission: Draft Updated Code of PracticeI always agree with what my right honourable friend the Secretary of State says, and I certainly do in this case. This just emphasises the point I made earlier: this code will…05 Nov 2025HANSARDEquality and Human Rights Commission: Draft Updated Code of PracticeOn the noble Baroness’s last point, I do not believe there is anything in the previous code or in any future code that would prevent the NHS making decisions on the basis of…05 Nov 2025HANSARDEquality and Human Rights Commission: Draft Updated Code of PracticeMy Lords, the Government are considering the draft updated code. If the decision is taken to approve it, the Secretary of State will lay it before Parliament. Parliament will then…05 Nov 2025HANSARDEquality and Human Rights Commission: Draft Updated Code of PracticeThe Government will follow the process set out in the Equality Act 2006 for laying the code. As per the process set out in Section 14 of that Act, the Minister for Women and…05 Nov 2025HANSARDEquality and Human Rights Commission: Draft Updated Code of PracticeI can confirm that we are required to consult the devolved Governments on elements of the code, and that that work is ongoing. We will ensure that the proper process has been…05 Nov 2025HANSARDEquality and Human Rights Commission: Draft Updated Code of PracticeThe EHRC continues to do important work, but I take the point that the right reverend Prelate makes. The new chair of the EHRC, who will start in her role at the end of this…05 Nov 2025HANSARDEquality and Human Rights Commission: Draft Updated Code of PracticeI think the noble and learned Lord knows that the full draft updated code was received by the Government from the EHRC on 4 September. Officials started work immediately after…05 Nov 2025HANSARDEquality and Human Rights Commission: Draft Updated Code of PracticeYes, I do agree. That is what the Government, from the Prime Minister downwards, have been clear about since the judgment was made. Organisations should comply with that judgment;…05 Nov 2025HANSARDEquality and Human Rights Commission: Draft Updated Code of PracticeI recognise that, as my noble friend says, trans people are concerned about the implications of the recent Supreme Court ruling. As I have said, we are considering both that…05 Nov 2025HANSARDEquality and Human Rights Commission: Draft Updated Code of PracticeAs part of the parliamentary process for implementing the new code, the previous code will be revoked, but I understand that the EHRC has asked the Government to revoke the…05 Nov 2025HANSARDThink Work First: The Transition from Education to Work for Young Disabled People (Public Services Committee Report)My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Morris of Yardley, for securing this important debate on this report. We are grateful to the committee for its work and its report,…04 Nov 2025HANSARDAntisemitism: UniversitiesI will come back to the noble Baroness on the point about designated places, but it is absolutely imperative that all students are able to pursue their religious faith while they…29 Oct 2025HANSARDAntisemitism: UniversitiesMy noble friend is right and, like the noble Lord, Lord Leigh, she has identified the shocking increase in the scale of antisemitic abuse and intimidation that not only students…29 Oct 2025HANSARDAntisemitism: UniversitiesThe Office for Students’ new condition E6, which requires universities to take action and have in place the framework to tackle intimidation and harassment, is a route through…29 Oct 2025HANSARDAntisemitism: UniversitiesI strongly agree with the noble Lord. That is why I was clear earlier that the right to protest is most certainly not a right to disrupt, intimidate or harass. It is the…29 Oct 2025HANSARDAntisemitism: UniversitiesThe noble Lord is right: what is happening to Jewish students and Jewish members of staff is wholly unacceptable. He is also right that in this country we believe in a right to…29 Oct 2025HANSARDAntisemitism: UniversitiesI am sure that the work of my noble friend Lord Mann is something that university vice-chancellors should look at very carefully to inform their work. As I have said, we have…29 Oct 2025HANSARDAntisemitism: UniversitiesIf a university gets to the point of having to be referred to the OFS as part of E6, it has clearly already failed and not done what this Government—I know this is supported…29 Oct 2025HANSARDAntisemitism: UniversitiesMy Lords, the targeted antisemitic campaign against Professor Ben-Gad is deeply troubling and has no place in our lecture halls, on campus or anywhere else. It is not free speech;…29 Oct 2025