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Westminster Hall
Educational Assessment System Reform - Wed 15 Oct 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Josh Dean (Lab - Hertford and Stortford) attacks, or even suicidal thoughts and self-harm, and taking time off school. - Speech Link
2: Josh Dean (Lab - Hertford and Stortford) We want young people to leave school ready for work and life, and to thrive with confidence. - Speech Link
3: Adam Dance (LD - Yeovil) hyperactivity disorder and dyslexia, I struggled at school and hated exams. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I know many businessmen and women who left school at 16 and are multimillionaires. - Speech Link
5: Georgia Gould (Lab - Queen's Park and Maida Vale) Every child needs the best start and to achieve at school. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Tue 16 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None Pupil referral units and alternative provision schools are similar to intensive care or high dependency - Speech Link
2: None Rather, we need to learn from the best pupil referral units and alternative provision schools and ensure - Speech Link
3: None We need to improve and expand the quality and quantity of alternative provision, but we also need to - Speech Link
4: None Although there is some brilliant alternative provision, typically it does not offer a full school day - Speech Link
5: Lord Bishop of Chelmsford (Bshp - Bishops) know that racist and faith-based bullying is a significant driver behind school exclusions. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sentencing Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Sep 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) , stalking, and coercive and controlling behaviour. - Speech Link
2: John McDonnell (Ind - Hayes and Harlington) We need to be open and transparent, and get all the information out there again and re-examine it on - Speech Link
3: Andrew Pakes (LAB - Peterborough) It also speaks to a truth: too many young offenders have been failed by school or lack the skills and - Speech Link
4: Jake Richards (Lab - Rother Valley) and Hythe (Tony Vaughan) and my hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage - Mon 15 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None discussions and working with alternative methods of progressing these matters on Report. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) land should be protected and used only where there is no alternative. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) The changes to the infrastructure provision include listing specific functions and bringing them in line - Speech Link
4: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) The amendments seek to introduce a change so that CPOs for the provision of sporting and recreational - Speech Link
5: Lord Bellingham (Con - Life peer) Look at a modern school or hospital; a new hospital is to be built in my old constituency, and there - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Pension Schemes Bill (Eighth sitting) - Thu 11 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Torsten Bell (Lab - Swansea West) Member for Torbay is absolutely right—and we want to understand and monitor the consolidation and scale - Speech Link
2: None The Pensions Regulator would provide guidance on the format and content of that alternative disclosure - Speech Link
3: None By requiring Government evaluation, revising accounting recognition rules and providing alternative disclosure - Speech Link
4: John Milne (LD - Horsham) is a key step to ensure fairness and equality in workplace pension access and to prevent similar exclusions - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Wed 10 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Spielman (Con - Life peer) every kind of provision outside school. - Speech Link
2: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) When they are excluded from school, local authorities may put them into what we call alternative provision - Speech Link
3: None Amendments 427 and 451 concern the regulation of alternative provision—education provided outside a mainstream - Speech Link
4: None alternative provision and the risks this poses to vulnerable children. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Committee stage - Mon 08 Sep 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) It is our position that extensive provision is already made and at significant cost. - Speech Link
2: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) We need to stop the use of manually accessed spreadsheets, tackle poor IT provision and improve case - Speech Link
3: Lord Harper (Con - Life peer) those visa sanctions—damage to our trade and all sorts of other reasons.This provision may be helpful - Speech Link
4: None Our view is that the existing provision in the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 already gives the Home - Speech Link
5: Lord Lemos (Lab - Life peer) , Lord German, and the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, includes a provision that would enable biometrics - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Educational Attainment of Boys - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Sam Rushworth (Lab - Bishop Auckland) Boys make up over 70% of permanent school exclusions and 95% of young people in custody. - Speech Link
2: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) Differences between girls and boys emerge in the early years and pre-school phase and continue right - Speech Link
3: Elsie Blundell (Lab - Heywood and Middleton North) School exclusions and low attendance are intimately linked to crime, with the Prison Reform Trust recently - Speech Link
4: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) and special educational needs and disability provision. - Speech Link
5: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) School leaders must develop and implement a policy that has the support of the school and aligns with - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Mon 16 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kramer (LD - Life peer) The amendments seek to define and restrict the scope of protection, introducing exclusions based on business - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) and with no credible alternative offered. - Speech Link
3: None a) alternative collective bargaining models for trade unions in the arts and cultural sector,(b) provisions - Speech Link
4: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) departments such as the Department for Business and Trade, the Department for Work and Pensions and - Speech Link
5: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) Through the Bill we are introducing the school support staff negotiating body and introducing a framework - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Thu 12 Jun 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Agnew of Oulton (Con - Life peer) The longer school day that is part and parcel of boarding school life can provide a form of round-the-clock - Speech Link
2: Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab - Life peer) the local authorities, and do not give virtual school heads yet another onerous task to do. - Speech Link
3: Lord Bird (XB - Life peer) I got to know people who went to my school, and they were fostered. - Speech Link