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HANSARDHealth and Care BillMy Lords, I very much agree with the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, and others. I was here for 20 years during the struggle for single-sex wards, and it was a notable achievement of the…09 Feb 2022HANSARDSchool Admissions Code 2021My Lords, I am not so much concerned with these regulations, which seem to me to be a good thing, but I really want to encourage the Government to go further because the school…09 Nov 2021HANSARDSchool Admissions Code 2021That the Grand Committee takes note of the draft School Admissions Code 2021 and the School Information (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (SI 2021/570). Relevant document:…09 Nov 2021HANSARDSchool Admissions Code 2021My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend for her careful explanation of the regulations and her replies to our various comments. I will certainly take her up on the offer…09 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, we had a fair old ding- dong last time we met on this Bill, with the Government proposing that we should destroy an entire suite of examinations in order to improve…21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, I am very grateful for my noble friend’s answer, which included just the words that I was after—that the Government are sure that the Office for Students has the powers…21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, the origins of this, for me, lie 10 years ago, when one of my work colleagues was rung by a friend of her son to say, “I think you need to come down to Cardiff.” That…21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, I will pick up where I left off on Amendment 11 and also speak to my Amendment 20. I welcome my noble friend to the Front Bench. There was a period when she was my Whip;…12 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, there are a number of other amendments in this group. I very much hope that we will pursue one or more of them to a Division if we do not get some very clear…12 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]12 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for that comprehensive reply. I will start by agreeing with her final words. Let us have qualifications that are clear, where every…12 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 11, which I have put my name to, and regret that the rules on Report do not allow the noble Lord, Lord Watson, to launch into his exposition of…12 Oct 2021HANSARDHouse of Lords Appointments CommissionMy Lords, we should put the Appointments Commission on a statutory basis. Yes, it is a piecemeal change, but evolution not revolution is the Conservative way, and it is the way we…06 Sept 2021HANSARDEnvironment BillBefore my noble friend sits down, could he confirm that I understood him aright that the current situation, where we do not know the origin of 80% of the particulate matter, is…06 Sept 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, in such fine form, but I am going to argue with his conclusion on degree apprenticeships and other higher…19 Jul 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]19 Jul 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, I thoroughly support the amendment in the name of my noble friend Lord Willetts and the addendum to it by the noble Lord, Lord Adonis. The Student Loans Company is a…19 Jul 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, I too am a fan of Kickstart, and I hope that the Government will consolidate and build on it. A review, as proposed in this amendment, seems a timely suggestion. I…19 Jul 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, I start with the areas where I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, and principally join in his praises for Sir Kevin Satchwell, a truly extraordinary, outstanding…19 Jul 2021