Mentions:
1: Lord Sarfraz (Con - Life peer) A digital resident would not need to come to the UK physically but could incorporate a British company - Speech Link
2: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) Increasing skills is responsible for a third of productivity growth and provides the opportunity for - Speech Link
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1: Blair McDougall (Lab - East Renfrewshire) along with help to grow and the apprenticeship reforms we have announced, will further boost local skills - Speech Link
2: Chris McDonald (Lab - Stockton North) I recognise the skills issue, and the Government are supporting the sector through the Government’s clean - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Graeme Downie (Lab - Dunfermline and Dollar) Carnegie understood that libraries, learning and practical skills were not luxuries; they were the engines - Speech Link
2: Graeme Downie (Lab - Dunfermline and Dollar) Imagine an ecosystem in which Carnegie’s legacy of free libraries becomes a digital learning commons, - Speech Link
3: Patricia Ferguson (Lab - Glasgow West) We have also launched four new inquiries for 2026, including on digital and fixed-link connectivity, - Speech Link
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1: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Droitwich and Evesham) They want to employ more people, especially young people, and to give learning and skills development - Speech Link
2: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) British businesses must be able to hire the people they need with the skills they need. - Speech Link
3: Kate Dearden (LAB - Halifax) Member for Arundel and South Downs (Andrew Griffith), on his somewhat alarming AI skills? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Luke Charters (Lab - York Outer) Instead, in the future, we should allow students to use AI in some exams to test how they use their AI skills - Speech Link
2: Victoria Collins (LD - Harpenden and Berkhamsted) determining how we react to this rapid shift in technology, will they consider the Lib Dems’ call for a digital - Speech Link
3: Ben Spencer (Con - Runnymede and Weybridge) , it is clear that we need a plan that ensures that our education system equips children with the skills - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Sarah Olney (LD - Richmond Park) of the UN’s 16 days of activism against gender-based violence, which focused primarily on ending digital - Speech Link
2: Kirsteen Sullivan (LAB - Bathgate and Linlithgow) stretched budget, but despite repeated pleas to the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills - Speech Link
3: Blake Stephenson (Con - Mid Bedfordshire) Digital ID is intrusive and fundamentally un-British. - Speech Link
4: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) Digital ID has huge benefits, as many countries in Europe are already demonstrating. - Speech Link
5: Sarah Bool (Con - South Northamptonshire) Is it a fair choice to introduce an unfunded and unwanted digital ID that will cost the public billions - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None have the freedom to make personal choices free from bias, and this is much easier to offer in the digital - Speech Link
2: Lord de Clifford (XB - Excepted Hereditary) employers, especially SMEs and micro-businesses, to take a chance on a prospective employee who shows the skills - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Catherine Atkinson (Lab - Derby North) more about how GBR will work together with our UK rail supply chain to ensure that we have the jobs, skills - Speech Link
2: Heidi Alexander (Lab - Swindon South) We are currently trialling digital pay-as-you-go in the east midlands and Yorkshire. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Lloyd of Effra (Lab - Life peer) The noble Lord is right to stress the importance of investing in our digital infrastructure, both in - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lloyd of Effra (Lab - Life peer) Earlier this year, the Government published the Digital Inclusion Action Plan, which set out a number - Speech Link
3: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) first on consumer prices and secondly on investment in the infrastructure that improves both the digital - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Sarah Gibson (LD - Chippenham) which was highlighted in recent Government statistics as being caused by lack of access to work and skills - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) call for a nationwide tap-in, tap-out system to extend the planned best price guarantee across all digital - Speech Link