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HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: Impact on Human Relationships and SocietyMy Lords, I am grateful to the most reverend Primate for securing this debate and for the way she has just introduced it. Alongside the Pope’s recent encyclical, moral leadership…05 Jun 2026HANSARDMedia Literacy (Communications and Digital Committee Report)My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend Lady Keeley on the comprehensive way that she introduced our committee’s report on media literacy, of which committee I am lucky to be a…16 Mar 2026HANSARDPublic Office (Accountability) Bill: ExclusionMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, and congratulate her on bringing forward this important debate. It is a good Question. I agree with her that the Public Office…26 Feb 2026HANSARDSchools White Paper: Every Child Achieving and ThrivingMy Lords, I remind the House of my education interests, in particular as chair of STEM Learning and of the E-ACT multi-academy trust. At some of our E-ACT primary schools in…24 Feb 2026HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I have followed these issues closely through my work on the Online Safety Act, first as a member of the Joint Committee, then on the Opposition Front Bench and now on…21 Jan 2026HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillThe noble Lord and I debate with great respect and friendship. My reading of “regulations made by statutory instruments require all regulated user-to-user services to use highly…21 Jan 2026HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI will move on. I will try harder to read further to get to the same place as the noble Lord, Lord Nash—but I doubt it. Pinterest was implicated in the suicide completed by Molly…21 Jan 2026HANSARDPost-16 Education and Skills StrategyMy Lords, while I associate myself with the comments on the IB from the noble Lord, Lord Storey, I want to focus on the issue of NEETs. The White Paper seeks to address the…22 Oct 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I will speak in support of Amendment 435 in the name of my noble friends, led by the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett. In doing so, I remind the House of my interests, in…10 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill10 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI am not suggesting that local authorities appoint the boards; I am suggesting that local authorities appoint the members who, in effect, are the shareholders to whom the boards…10 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 436ZB in my name. I remind your Lordships of my education interests, particularly as the chair of the Council of British International…10 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend, particularly for the last sentiment in her wind-up on this small but perfectly formed debate on these amendments. My noble friend…10 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I will speak briefly on this group of amendments in the same vein as have my noble friends Lady Morris and Lady Bousted, and emphasise that we need qualified teachers,…10 Sept 2025HANSARDEnterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025There is a difference, but the argument the noble Lord is making is that people are seeking to get influence rather than a financial return. If you are taking 5%, you are doing so…22 Jul 2025HANSARDEnterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025As ever, the noble Lord has made a good case. He made his point—as did the noble Lord, Lord Forsyth—around what a percentage stake might mean if the returns are not going to be…22 Jul 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, as this is my first substantive contribution in Committee, I declare my education interests as chair of E-ACT multi-academy trust, of STEM Learning, of Century-Tech and…23 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI am interested in what the noble Baroness said—that the laptop and tablet learning devices that schools have would be sufficient for teaching media literacy. Does she suggest,…23 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillAt what age does the noble Baroness think that children should be taught how to use phones safely?23 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillIs that not what is happening at the moment? A vast number of schools are, in effect, banning smartphones—as many people would like—some have an intermediate approach, and then…23 Jun 2025