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Lords Chamber
Higher Education Reform - Thu 20 Jul 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LDEM - Life peer) The noble Baroness, Lady Twycross, mentioned being a graduate of languages. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) The noble Baroness, Lady Smith, talked about modern foreign languages. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Report stage: Part 2 - Thu 06 Jul 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: None However, what of many of the minor languages? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Harding of Winscombe (CON - Life peer) In the modern digital world, that dwell time has been transformed into a whole behavioural science of - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Adult and Further Education - Wed 05 Jul 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) earlier also revealed a mass move among adult education providers towards fee-paying courses, as free languages - Speech Link
2: Lia Nici (CON - Great Grimsby) of working so that its 16 to 19-year-olds and adult learners—and its staff—can work in a corporate, modern - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education: Arts and Humanities - Wed 28 Jun 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LDEM - Life peer) emphasis on being a science superpower, have they also considered the ramifications of losing courses in modern - Speech Link
2: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) I absolutely agree with the noble Baroness that modern foreign languages are critically important; hence - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) Baroness knows, we are committed to the bursaries that we are putting in to support particularly the modern - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Victims and Prisoners Bill (Sixth sitting)
Committee stage: 6th sitting - Tue 27 Jun 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) number of criminal offences under the Serious Crime Act 2007, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and the Modern - Speech Link
2: Maria Eagle (LAB - Garston and Halewood) it would be good if we had enough money in the budget to translate the victims code into different languages—but - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Public Broadcasting in Scotland - Thu 15 Jun 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: John Nicolson (SNP - Ochil and South Perthshire) Bill includes lots of really good things that are absolutely necessary—among them, prominence for the languages - Speech Link
2: Stephanie Peacock (LAB - Barnsley East) years: our public sector broadcasters and radio services need to be given the tools to survive in the modern - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Council of Europe - Thu 08 Jun 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tonia Antoniazzi (LAB - Gower) I have had the opportunity to travel across Europe and across the world, and I am a languages graduate - Speech Link
2: Hannah Bardell (SNP - Livingston) family growing up in Livingston, I could never have imagined in my wildest dreams that—having read modern - Speech Link
3: David Rutley (CON - Macclesfield) We are actively involved in much of its diverse work, from minority languages to the environment to violence - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Wed 07 Jun 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) He repeated to me on Monday the false assertion that“the numbers of people claiming to have been modern - Speech Link
2: None The Home Office Analysis of Modern Slavery NRM Referrals from Asylum, Small Boats and Detention Cohorts - Speech Link
3: None Victims of modern slavery and trafficking will potentially be returned. - Speech Link
4: None Also, who is going to give it to them and in what languages will it be given? - Speech Link
5: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) It would be prohibitively expensive to provide translations of decision notices in all possible languages - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Mental Health Treatment and Support - Wed 07 Jun 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lyn Brown (LAB - West Ham) requires clinicians to adapt their way of caring for people with different cultural backgrounds and languages - Speech Link
2: Marie Rimmer (LAB - St Helens South and Whiston) Modern workplaces should have accessible mental first aid in the way that they have physical first aid - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Afghan Women and Girls - Tue 06 Jun 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Wendy Chamberlain (LDEM - North East Fife) know that the internet is a fantastic resource for education and technology, for reading, learning languages - Speech Link
2: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) The school’s Feminism Club, facilitated by modern studies teacher Miss Thomson, wrote to me recently - Speech Link