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HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)I am concerned that the Opposition are concentrating on BTECs. BTEC is a brand—it is a commercial brand. In ordinary parlance, we might use it as a throwaway term for level 2 or…02 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)Will the hon. Gentleman give way?02 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)On the point about quality and outcomes, we want employers to lead this initiative, along with partners from training and education, because, as the hon. Gentleman has stated in…02 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)Will the hon. Gentleman allow me to intervene?02 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)With respect, I did not say that. I said that BTECs are an overarching brand name. We have Cambridge Nationals, City & Guilds and so on, but what is important is the content of…02 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)No, I did not say that.02 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)I appreciate the hon. Gentleman allowing me to intervene. Do he and his colleagues not understand that BTEC is just a brand name of the Pearson group? Those high quality…02 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)Not at all!30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)Employers and jobs are not coterminous in a particular area. In southern Humberside and Lincolnshire, we want to ensure that our local skills plans cross those borders, because…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)Is not the argument that the Opposition are making that the public and quasi-public sector is not necessarily making it work now? We do need employers. Employers constantly say…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)We already know that these kinds of activities are happening. I declare an interest as the chair of the apprenticeship diversity champions network. Employers are recognising that…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I was a college lecturer in the era that the hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington mentioned. Curriculum 2000 was an absolute, unmitigated disaster. AVCEs—advanced vocational…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)The reality is that university education is not skills education. That is the problem. We have people doing lots of different types of degrees, and they are leaving, as graduates,…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill (First sitting)The reality is that university education is not skills education. That is the problem. We have people doing lots of different types of degrees, and they are leaving, as graduates,…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill (First sitting)I was a college lecturer in the era that the hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington mentioned. Curriculum 2000 was an absolute, unmitigated disaster. AVCEs—advanced vocational…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill (Second sitting)Employers and jobs are not coterminous in a particular area. In southern Humberside and Lincolnshire, we want to ensure that our local skills plans cross those borders, because…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill (Second sitting)Is not the argument that the Opposition are making that the public and quasi-public sector is not necessarily making it work now? We do need employers. Employers constantly say…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill (Second sitting)We already know that these kinds of activities are happening. I declare an interest as the chair of the apprenticeship diversity champions network. Employers are recognising that…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill (Second sitting)Not at all!30 Nov 2021HANSARDRegisters of Births and Deaths BillMy home filing cabinet contains birth certificates and copious romantic family records. Does my hon. Friend agree that if somebody wanted to, they could easily steal that…26 Nov 2021