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HANSARDVisa Applications: Dr Mu-Chun ChiangMy Lords, the Minister may recall that I wrote to her regarding a young Indian girl who wanted to come and spend Christmas with her relatives in Liverpool. She applied twice for a…08 Oct 2019HANSARDNational School Breakfast ProgrammeMy Lords, the Minister will be aware that where breakfast clubs operate it ensures that children’s attendance and punctuality improve, healthy food is eaten, attainment…05 Sept 2019HANSARDEducation FundingMy Lords, I also welcome the Statement. We are obviously delighted that extra resources are being made available, and I accept the figures that were given. I am concerned about…03 Sept 2019HANSARDEducation FundingI am pleased with the Minister’s answer. In terms of alternative provision, the problem with unregistered schools is that local authorities themselves send the excluded pupils to…03 Sept 2019HANSARDNHS: Dentistry ServicesMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Gardner, for initiating this debate. I remember a similar debate in the Moses Room about two years ago. I knew nothing about dentists or…25 Jul 2019HANSARDNHS: Dentistry ServicesCould the Minister drop me a note about dental milk, which I do not think she referred to, and how it might be developed in schools?25 Jul 2019HANSARDSmall-scale Radio Multiplex and Community Digital Radio Order 2019My Lords, we welcome this SI, but the noble Lord, Lord Kirkhope, gets to the nub of the matter, and perhaps some of our concerns. The Minister will recall that I asked an Oral…23 Jul 2019HANSARDYoung Adults: Public Service FundingMy Lords, like many of your Lordships I have spoken in many debates involving the young, children and youth services. These have been at various times of the day and I always…18 Jul 2019HANSARDDevolution: English CitiesMy Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Heseltine, I believe in the importance of cities. I look at the great northern cities of our country and at how they languished. They could…17 Jul 2019HANSARDRelationship Education Lessons in SchoolsMy Lords, we welcome the Statement. I also welcome the Minister’s robust response. It is important that teachers and head teachers are supported. We have agreed the way forward on…16 Jul 2019HANSARDMulti-academy TrustsI wonder how robust these procedures are. The Minister may recall that, a few months ago, the newspaper headlines were saying that an academy leader had established a love nest in…10 Jul 2019HANSARDMulti-academy TrustsTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the financial arrangements and auditing of multi-academy trusts.10 Jul 2019HANSARDPost-18 Education and Funding ReviewMy Lords, I too welcome this timely debate and thank the huge number of organisations that sent us briefings. It shows the importance of the work we are talking about. We all…02 Jul 2019HANSARDKnife CrimeMy Lords, I declare my interest as a vice-president of the Local Government Association. We have heard too many harrowing statistics about knife crime, which is akin to a modern…27 Jun 2019HANSARDEducation: Industrial StrategyMy Lords, the creative industries are an important part of the industrial strategy. They are worth £101 billion per year to the British economy and grow at double our overall rate…24 Jun 2019HANSARDEducation: Music A-levelMy Lords, the Minister will be aware, because he kindly wrote a reply to a written request, that over the past five years the number of pupils doing GCSE music has declined, the…24 Jun 2019HANSARDSchools: Careers AdviceMy Lords, the Minister may have heard that the Education and Employers Taskforce found that more direct contact between employers and young people from an early age has a direct…19 Jun 2019HANSARDSchools: Careers AdviceMy Lords—19 Jun 2019HANSARDChildren’s Homes etc. Inspection Fees, Childcare Fees, Adoption and Children Act Register (Amendment) Regulations 2019My Lords, my father and his brother were adopted into a loving family, and it changed his and his brother’s lives for good, so in a sense I have a vested interest in this…18 Jun 2019HANSARDSure StartMy Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for repeating the Statement and, like him, I welcome the report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The report indeed shows that…05 Jun 2019