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HANSARDAntisemitism: UniversitiesYes. My right honourable friend the Secretary of State met the Union of Jewish Students just last week and wrote directly to vice-chancellors to outline the seriousness of this…29 Oct 2025HANSARDAutistic Children: State SchoolsYes, my noble friend makes a very important point there that builds on the point about the difference in the ways in which autism may present, but particularly highlights the…23 Oct 2025HANSARDAutistic Children: State SchoolsThe noble Baroness is absolutely right that schools have a legal duty, under the Equality Act, not to discriminate against pupils by excluding them because of their disability. It…23 Oct 2025HANSARDAutistic Children: State SchoolsMy noble friend is absolutely right about that and about the different factors that may lead to concerns about a child’s behaviour. It is very important that school leaders…23 Oct 2025HANSARDAutistic Children: State SchoolsI am sure the noble Baroness was listening to my initial response, when I said that the Government support head teachers to make the right decision about exclusions. I also agree…23 Oct 2025HANSARDAutistic Children: State SchoolsThe noble Lord is absolutely right about that. It follows the point made by the noble Baroness about the need for a personalised approach. In fact, the approach to all children…23 Oct 2025HANSARDAutistic Children: State SchoolsI feel that the whole of your Lordships’ House benefits from the commitment and knowledge of the noble Baroness, Lady Browning, and my noble friend on this topic. She once again…23 Oct 2025HANSARDAutistic Children: State SchoolsMy Lords, we expect schools to support pupils with special educational needs and disabilities or mental health needs appropriately. In all cases, schools should consider…23 Oct 2025HANSARDPost-16 Education and Skills StrategyAs my noble friend knows, there is a sector skills plan that goes alongside the creative industries’ inclusion in the industrial strategy. Of course, it is already the case that…22 Oct 2025HANSARDPost-16 Education and Skills StrategyOn the noble Lord’s first point, no, I do not accept that an index-linked increase in tuition fees—a certainty of funding that no other public or private sector organisations, or…22 Oct 2025HANSARDPost-16 Education and Skills StrategyMy Lords, in the relatively short time left for me before we get on to other questions, I will endeavour to respond to as many of the points raised as possible. Just to reiterate,…22 Oct 2025HANSARDPost-16 Education and Skills StrategyThe noble Baroness has identified the very different nature of student loan provision from an ordinary form of borrowing. What a student repays is dependent neither on the size of…22 Oct 2025HANSARDPost-16 Education and Skills StrategyQuite often in further education, there is very good special educational needs provision, which we will learn from. We will also ensure, as part of our special educational needs…22 Oct 2025HANSARDPost-16 Education and Skills StrategyI explained to the noble Lord’s colleague the reason behind the international student levy. I do not think it is true to say that there is not an evidence base on the elasticity…22 Oct 2025HANSARDPost-16 Education and Skills StrategyI thank my noble friend for recognising the range of reform necessary to tackle this enormously worrying problem of young people who are neither learning nor earning. In order to…22 Oct 2025HANSARDPost-16 Education and Skills StrategyThere will be opportunities through V-levels for those interested in vocational routes into the creative industries. There will be opportunities through some of the sector skills…22 Oct 2025HANSARDPost-16 Education and Skills StrategyMy noble friend is right that, over recent years, the doubling of the effective subcontracting of university education through franchising has led to concerns around the quality…22 Oct 2025HANSARDPost-16 Education and Skills StrategyThere are a lot of questions in the noble Lord’s question, most of which I will have to respond to in writing. I reassure him that, in the sorts of crafts he talked about, we…22 Oct 2025HANSARDPost-16 Education and Skills StrategyTo reiterate, what we have said is that where there is a T-level in place, we will, as we said we would in the qualifications review that we did last year, defund a large…22 Oct 2025HANSARDPost-16 Education and Skills StrategyI think the noble Baroness was welcoming the development of a more modular approach, supported through the delivery of the lifelong learning entitlement. Of course, we will want…22 Oct 2025