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HANSARDLifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill (Second sitting)Fine—now I understand you. Ecology might not be top of the list—I am a biologist who did a lot of ecology so I can say it—and that is a bit like archaeology. The initial stuff at…21 Mar 2023HANSARDLifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill (First sitting)Q Yes, I am very interested. Say I was to take advantage of these loans and invest my time and hard-earned money in moving from one job sector to another via the modular course,…21 Mar 2023HANSARDLifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill (Second sitting)Q Listening to what you are saying, I am trying to chase through a real-world example because I do not have your expertise in the field. I am hearing that we need some kind of…21 Mar 2023HANSARDLifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you so much for your evidence. As we transition into this new world, I am interested in hearing your expert view on where you are seeing immediate demand—for example, the…21 Mar 2023HANSARDLifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill (Second sitting)So the Elrathia trilobites that we probably both have at home are still 500 million years old. Professor Rigby: The beauty of this is that you could design a degree that has a…21 Mar 2023HANSARDLifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill (Second sitting)Q Okay. So while the modularisation of the 80 subjects is a potential issue, it is not a day one issue but can happen over time as well? Professor Rigby: Imagine doing a computing…21 Mar 2023HANSARD Child Support (Enforcement) BillMy hon. Friend is correct, as usual. Many hon. Members see people in surgeries and through casework with difficulties in accessing the vital childcare payments that help to…17 Mar 2023HANSARD Animals (Low Welfare Activities Abroad) BillI pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Guildford (Angela Richardson) for her excellent championing of the Bill. Time is against us, so I will raise just two points. First,…17 Mar 2023HANSARD Child Support (Enforcement) BillWith the leave of the House, I take the opportunity to thank the Minister and Members on both sides of the House for their support. I extend my appreciation and that of my hon.…17 Mar 2023HANSARD Child Support (Enforcement) BillI beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. This Bill is an important measure designed to improve the recovery of arrears from parents who have failed to meet their…17 Mar 2023HANSARDAnimal (Low-Welfare Activities Abroad) BillI would like to add to that list. I have worked as a field guide, a safari ranger, in Africa, and cheetahs are especially vulnerable. I have seen cheetahs in particularly shocking…08 Mar 2023HANSARD Football Governance White PaperFans in South Ribble of proper football clubs such as Manchester United—I am aware that there may be others—were deeply worried about the European super league and will hugely…23 Feb 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe MOJ plans to almost double the number of prisoners on the site of HMP Garth and HMP Wymott, but those plans are hamstrung by an almost complete lack of public transport…21 Feb 2023HANSARDFemale Prison EstateMay I welcome the comments about the female prison estate? Turning to the male prison estate, His Majesty’s Prisons Garth and Wymott in my constituency—21 Feb 2023HANSARDTopical QuestionsHMP Garth and HMP Wymott are successful prisons that do great work rehabilitating prisoners, but the Ministry of Justice has plans to put a third prison on the site, almost…21 Feb 2023HANSARDLGBT History MonthI am listening carefully to the hon. Member’s speech. She touched on how our community has always been around and we are not going anywhere, but I would like to pay tribute to the…02 Feb 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingI read today’s motion and listened with care to the opening remarks from the right hon. Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yvette Cooper). It seemed likely to me…31 Jan 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingI am nearly done. Perhaps the Labour Front Benchers might get out of London and come to receive a warm Lancashire welcome from the Conservatives. It will be warm regardless of the…31 Jan 2023HANSARDCrime and Neighbourhood PolicingI could not agree more with my hon. Friend. I was going to refer to that later, but let me say now that that is innovation brought by heart and commitment from a Conservative PCC,…31 Jan 2023HANSARDApprenticeships: Government SupportI am listening intently to the hon. Lady’s structured analysis of the current situation, although I do not agree with all of it. I want to highlight the example of EnergyAce, a…24 Jan 2023