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HANSARDInstitute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL]My Lords, I acknowledge that a great deal of the thinking behind Amendment 17 comes from the Edge Foundation. Skills England is a big change and a big opportunity. The…21 Nov 2024HANSARDInstitute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL]My Lords, I share many of the concerns expressed by noble Lords. The Bill should by no means leave the House in the state in which it entered it. It is important that whatever…21 Nov 2024HANSARDInstitute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL]21 Nov 2024HANSARDInstitute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL]My Lords, I am very grateful for that reply. I completely understand that this is a direction in which the Government do not want to take at the moment, but I cannot recall, in my…21 Nov 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, we have been here before. When the Schools Bill was in front of us, I was very happily lined up next to Lord Judge in saying that this would not do, and I find myself in…20 Nov 2024HANSARDData (Use and Access) Bill [HL]My Lords, I declare an interest in that, through the Good Schools Guide , I am an extensive user of government schools data. With another hat on, I share my noble friend Lord…19 Nov 2024HANSARDHome School Education Registration and Support Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Storey, for giving us the opportunity of looking at this Bill. I am a long-term supporter of home education, though I confess I…15 Nov 2024HANSARDUniversitiesMy Lords, this is a most valuable report, although I wish it had been a mite more self-critical. I would have liked to have seen more of an interest taken in the value of…14 Nov 2024HANSARDHouse of Lords ReformMy Lords, I want to make it clear what my attitude to this Bill is. In a race between the Grim Reaper and this Government to see the back of me, I hope that the Government win. In…12 Nov 2024HANSARDSex and Gender: Official DataMy Lords, do the Government have a working definition of gender and gender identity and, if so, could they share it with the House?05 Nov 2024HANSARDHigher Education ReformMy Lords, I too welcome the Statement and look forward to the ideas that are coming forward over the next few months. The Secretary of State said: “I heard too often from students…05 Nov 2024HANSARDScience and Technology: EconomyMy Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Viscount, Lord Stansgate, for giving the chance of this debate, and I really enjoyed the maiden speech of the noble Baroness, Lady…31 Oct 2024HANSARDClimate AgendaMy Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend Lord Lilley for giving us the opportunity of this debate and it was a great privilege to listen to the maiden speech of my noble…24 Oct 2024HANSARDInstitute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (Transfer of Functions etc) Bill [HL]My Lords, I declare my interests in the Good Schools Guide and as a member of the council of City & Guilds. It is good to see a skills Bill here so early on and being tackled with…22 Oct 2024HANSARDEV Strategy: (ECC Committee Report)My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter, for her superb chairing of the committee; it was a real pleasure to be part of it. I share my noble friend Lord…16 Oct 2024HANSARDCombat Air CapabilityMy Lords, given the drone capability we see daily in Ukraine, could not that be used to puncture people smugglers’ boats before they ever leave French shores?10 Oct 2024HANSARDProduct Regulation and Metrology Bill [HL]My Lords, I have a great deal of sympathy with the points made from the Front Bench by my noble friend Lord Sandhurst. I do not like a Henry VIII Bill in this form. I was glad…08 Oct 2024HANSARDEnvironment and Climate Change Committee Report: An Extraordinary Challenge: Restoring 30 per cent of our Land and Sea by 2030My Lords, I was a member of the committee that produced this report, under the superb chairmanship of the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter, which made it a most enjoyable…11 Sept 2024HANSARDIndependent Schools: VAT ExemptionMy Lords, I declare interests as proprietor of the Good Schools Guide and having sent my children to both state and independent schools. I do not think taxing education is right,…05 Sept 2024HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, it is a great honour to follow three such powerful speeches from noble Baronesses. I am duly put in the shade. I have very happy memories of facing the Labour Front…24 Jul 2024