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HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mrs Miller. I support clause 17 and new clause 8, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Chesterfield and me. The new clause…07 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)I rise to speak in favour of amendment 50, which would require the Secretary of State to review maintenance support available to further education students and courses. The Augar…07 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)It is hard to believe. The Minister is right on that point but, as a third child, I would not have been able to go were it not for the maintenance grant, back in those days. That…07 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)I rise to speak in favour of new clause 2 and against Government amendment 23. I have various concerns with clause 19 and where the Government seem to be going with the review on…07 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)It is a pleasure to be able to give my hon. Friend the Member for Chesterfield a bit of a break this morning, given that he has been doing so much hard work in the past hour or…07 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)I beg to move amendment 60, in clause 20, page 24, line 13, at end insert— “(5A) When measuring student outcomes under subsection (5), the OfS must take account of mitigating…07 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)I thank the Minister and my hon. Friend the Member for Luton South for their comments. Let me pick up on the points my hon. Friend just made. Educators and educationalists are…07 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fifth sitting)I do not have any further points to make and will not press any other amendments. Question put and agreed to. Clause 20 accordingly ordered to stand part of the Bill. Clause 21…07 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)I will speak to the amendments and the new clause that appear in my name and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Chesterfield. Of course we all want to see a high-skill,…07 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)It would be interesting to hear from the Minister what form of penalty the Government imagine. We heard the probing question from my hon. Friend the Member for Chesterfield about…07 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)I have a few points to add to my hon. Friend’s remarks. In principle, these clauses make some important points about essay mills and the advertising of relevant services. There is…07 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)I was hoping to catch my hon. Friend’s eye.07 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Sixth sitting)It is like “Just a Minute”. I thank my hon. Friend for giving way. I just want to elaborate on the point in his concluding remarks about how many colleges face financial…07 Dec 2021HANSARDStudent Loan Repayment ThresholdThe Prime Minister is notorious for sitting on reports—he must have piles—but Augur predates even him. With regard to higher education funding, there are reports that the…06 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for giving way; he is being very generous with his time. Regarding that £2 billion figure he has just cited and his earlier point about the construction…02 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)I take the Minister’s point, but that decision was reached and agreed across the parties in the House of Lords. The Lords accepted that BTECs are a qualification, along with AGQs…02 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)That is the point. I am sure it was not by design that the money got lost in the Treasury, but it is a real tragedy that the money intended for delivering apprenticeships to small…02 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Fourth sitting)Am I right in thinking that Lord Baker was also involved?02 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)My hon. Friend is making, as ever, some very important and powerful points. The wording of the amendment is very simple and, I would have thought, pretty honest and…02 Dec 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under you in the chair again, Mr Efford. I will just add a simple point. I appreciate that it is always difficult in these situations for a Minister, but…02 Dec 2021