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HANSARDRelationship, Sex and Health EducationMy noble friend is right that one of the important decisions that schools need to be supported in making is delivering the right content at the right time for students to gain,…04 Mar 2025HANSARDRelationship, Sex and Health EducationI hope I can reassure the noble Lord that it certainly is not down the list of priorities. It is precisely because we need to provide guidance that identifies children’s best…04 Mar 2025HANSARDRelationship, Sex and Health EducationThe right reverend Prelate makes a really important point about one of the areas where relationship, sex and health education can make an important difference. Education has a key…04 Mar 2025HANSARDRelationship, Sex and Health EducationIt is fundamentally important that what our schools teach is based both on the best interests of children and on factually accurate information. Ensuring that that is the case is…04 Mar 2025HANSARDRelationship, Sex and Health EducationI would certainly share concerns if parents did not feel that they were being properly engaged with on what their children were being taught, both on the overall policy and in…04 Mar 2025HANSARDRelationship, Sex and Health EducationI certainly agree that we do not want to go back to the days of Section 28 and intolerance throughout society. It is important that children get the opportunity at the appropriate…04 Mar 2025HANSARDHigher Education (Fee Limits and Fee Limit Condition) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2025I thank noble Lords for their contributions to this debate. It should perhaps have been sponsored by King’s College; there was clear quality from King’s on display in the quality…03 Mar 2025HANSARDHigher Education (Fee Limits and Fee Limit Condition) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2025That the Grand Committee do consider the Higher Education (Fee Limits and Fee Limit Condition) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2025. Relevant document: 16th Report from the…03 Mar 2025HANSARDHigher Education (Fee Limits and Fee Limit Condition) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2025My Lords, I thank the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee for its scrutiny of these draft regulations. This statutory instrument, which was laid in draft on 20 January,…03 Mar 2025HANSARDHigher Education (Fee Limits and Fee Limit Condition) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2025Four.03 Mar 2025HANSARDBreakfast Clubs: Early AdoptersI thank noble Lords for their responses to the Statement made earlier this week by the Secretary of State, in which she spelled out very clearly the delivery plans for the…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBreakfast Clubs: Early AdoptersChoice depends on there being provision. At the moment, there is not universal free provision of breakfast clubs for those children—probably their parents, frankly, at that…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBreakfast Clubs: Early AdoptersThere is enormous value in families being able to sit down and eat together. My personal experience is that breakfast is not necessarily the most likely time to bring fruitful…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBreakfast Clubs: Early AdoptersWe could have a broader debate about why it has been necessary for this Government to introduce an increase in national insurance contributions, but let us not do that…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBreakfast Clubs: Early AdoptersI will undertake to come back to the noble Baroness about that. The point I was making is that we are talking not only about the current situation, in which quite a few parents…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBreakfast Clubs: Early AdoptersMy noble friend makes a very important point. It is at the heart of the early adopters scheme that, exactly as she says, we are able to see in different circumstances, with…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBreakfast Clubs: Early AdoptersThe noble Baroness is right that some good schemes are already in place but, to reiterate, none is universal or free. The breakfast club commitment that will be brought into law…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBreakfast Clubs: Early AdoptersThe noble Baroness asks precisely some of the questions that the early adopter scheme will enable us to consider. I agree that teachers should not be extending their day to do…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBreakfast Clubs: Early AdoptersWe do not believe that that is the case. With the considerable additional money that will go into schools—£24,000 for an average school—we believe that it is possible to cover all…27 Feb 2025HANSARDBreakfast Clubs: Early AdoptersThe right reverend Prelate makes an important point. As I suggested earlier, 50 of the 750 schools in the early adopter scheme are special schools and will receive a higher rate…27 Feb 2025