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HANSARDLifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill (First sitting)Q I am interested in the workforce. Liz, you mentioned the need to manage the workforce; if we are to have, in effect, all-year-round entry, with people able to join at different…21 Mar 2023HANSARDLifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill (First sitting)Q I was trying to exclude the full-time undergraduate. I am trying to get at if there is a danger that, for some of those who might already be accessing technical, part-time,…21 Mar 2023HANSARDLifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill (First sitting)Q Do you have a “finger in the wind” kind of breakdown between own-paid for and employer-paid for? Professor Peck: At NTU, the vast majority of UK undergraduate students are paid…21 Mar 2023HANSARDLifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill (First sitting)Q At the moment, students come and study part-time or via the workplace. Predominantly, who pays for those courses? Professor Peck: It is a really mixed picture. Some are paid for…21 Mar 2023HANSARDLifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill (Second sitting)Q At the moment, a student who is choosing different modules in a course will have guidance from their institution—for example, they will speak to their tutor, who will say,…21 Mar 2023HANSARDLifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill (Second sitting)Q Finally, could I ask about diversion from what employers are paying at the moment? The Association of Colleges will have lots of your members running adult education and…21 Mar 2023HANSARDLifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill (Second sitting)Q Is that fair? When we talk about the cost basis we are talking about the same for both institutions rather than understanding that colleges, rather than having less than they…21 Mar 2023HANSARDLifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill (First sitting)Q Alun, you are nodding along; did you want to say anything about the safeguards that might need to be in the Bill? Alun Francis: I am with Ellen on this: I have not thought it…21 Mar 2023HANSARDLifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill (First sitting)Q Of course, in the FE sector you are paid less per head than people in schools or in universities—it kind of dips at a crucial time—so that is a fair point. I wonder about the…21 Mar 2023HANSARD Budget Resolutions and Economic SituationNo, I will not. Britain should invest in the reactors and roll them out, but as yet, we have not done so. [ Interruption. ] No. It is the same with carbon capture. Investment is…15 Mar 2023HANSARD Budget Resolutions and Economic SituationI would describe this as a bit of a Stockholm syndrome Budget. After the appalling set of Budgets we have had, 13 years of the failed austerity experiment started by the Tories…15 Mar 2023HANSARD North and East Syria: Autonomous AdministrationI note that the brief that the Minister is reading—that is fair enough—says that we are giving the people there support. When her colleague writes to me, could he outline in…02 Mar 2023HANSARD North and East Syria: Autonomous AdministrationLet me begin by drawing the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, and declaring that I am the chair of the all-party parliamentary group…02 Mar 2023HANSARDProcurement Bill [ Lords ] (Ninth sitting)I rise to support new clause 16 because of what happened in Brighton, which showed that it is important to have overall guidelines rather than discretionary guidance on this…21 Feb 2023HANSARDProcurement Bill [ Lords ] (Ninth sitting)My hon. Friend is making very good points about outsourcing. It is quite right that we support outsourcing to good companies that pay good and fair wages and offer good terms and…21 Feb 2023HANSARDProcurement Bill [ Lords ] (Ninth sitting)Quite right. This housing association had no footprint at all in Brighton and Hove and a very limited footprint in East Sussex. The women who were in that organisation’s housing…21 Feb 2023HANSARDPlymouth ShootingsMy thoughts, of course, are with the families and the victims, and I commend the sterling work that my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport (Luke Pollard) has…21 Feb 2023HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillThe problem with the tort clause is that it also applies to student unions and student associations, which were always free to invite people that they wish to invite along.…07 Feb 2023HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillMembers opposite say the banning of the Christian union was a disgrace, but is there not a real danger with this Bill that all societies will be banned from campus because the…07 Feb 2023HANSARD Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) BillI sat on the Bill Committee and heard the evidence. Some, which I supported, talked about the unnecessary nature of the Bill, much said it would be unhelpful, and a lot said it…07 Feb 2023