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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Steve Witherden (Lab - Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr) a mandatory part of the curriculum, helping to develop pupils’ creative, artistic and performance skills - Speech Link
2: Ian Murray (Lab - Edinburgh South) Digital inclusion and connectivity, as well as the cost, are all active concerns and they will be weighed - Speech Link
3: Nick Smith (Lab - Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney) A new approach to proactively understand Members’ needs has been introduced by the Parliamentary Digital - Speech Link
4: Nick Smith (Lab - Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney) Testing of whether Copilot or other digital solutions can help with inbox management has taken place, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Pat McFadden (Lab - Wolverhampton South East) Gentleman’s request for more public expenditure and I am coming on to the growth and skills levy in a - Speech Link
2: Daisy Cooper (LD - St Albans) big banks and the tech giants.On the tech giants, why did the Chancellor slip out a review of the digital - Speech Link
3: Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con - North Cotswolds) skills and the use of AI in all Departments and agencies. - Speech Link
4: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con - Huntingdon) That, yet again, leads to a lack of incentive to develop skills and opportunities for those with them - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Jesse Norman (Con - Hereford and South Herefordshire) spending, and are not because of worse forecasts.This Government claim to speak for working people, skills - Speech Link
2: Ann Davies (PC - Caerfyrddin) As we are all being encouraged to bank online and become digital, we forget the 39% of Lloyds’ Ammanford - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Business and Trade Committee - Thu 27 Nov 2025
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North) Crucially, we need to make sure we have the right skills in both Companies House and the National Crime - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Young People not in Education, Employment or Training - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Linsey Farnsworth (Lab - Amber Valley) to visit David Nieper academy, which works with local industry leaders and teaches employability skills - Speech Link
2: Lauren Edwards (Lab - Rochester and Strood) (Linsey Farnsworth) for securing the debate.As co-chair of the all-party parliamentary group for skills - Speech Link
3: Olly Glover (LD - Didcot and Wantage) Transport costs are also very high.The world of skills is changing. - Speech Link
4: Jonathan Brash (Lab - Hartlepool) That is a salient lesson in how not to deal with skills in our country.I say to the Minister: let us - Speech Link
5: Leigh Ingham (Lab - Stafford) He is absolutely right to speak about the importance of skills. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Ed Davey (LD - Kingston and Surbiton) If she was not spending £1.8 billion on digital ID, many of these tax rises would not have been needed - Speech Link
2: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Friern Barnet) that position, and how we can be helpful in pushing the Government towards even more investment in skills - Speech Link
3: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge) Forget about digital ID, which is insane in its own right; this is a genuine theft of the liberty of - Speech Link
4: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) The increase in skills is such a necessary part of this Budget. - Speech Link
5: John Slinger (Lab - Rugby) More broadly, the Budget has at its core investment in housing, infrastructure and skills. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Driving Test Availability: South-east - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Al Pinkerton (LD - Surrey Heath) Their confidence declines, practical skills fade and their opportunities narrow. - Speech Link
2: James MacCleary (LD - Lewes) She sets her alarm, logs on, waits in the digital queue, and by the time she reaches the front, every - Speech Link
3: Zöe Franklin (LD - Guildford) my constituent tried to find an alternative slot, as many families do, so she found herself in a digital - Speech Link
4: Simon Lightwood (LAB - Wakefield and Rothwell) Road safety knowledge and hazard perception skills must be up to date when the customer takes their practical - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Financial Statement and Budget Report - Wed 26 Nov 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West and Pudsey) planning system, and I will today provide further funding to increase planning capacity through a new skills - Speech Link
2: Rachel Reeves (Lab - Leeds West and Pudsey) reforms to indefinite leave to remain and access to taxpayer-funded benefits.The introduction of digital - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Level 7 Apprenticeships - Tue 25 Nov 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Sarah Gibson (LD - Chippenham) across all four towns in my constituency, driven in large part by limited access to education and skills - Speech Link
2: Sarah Gibson (LD - Chippenham) Skills England has estimated that more than 250,000 additional workers will be needed by 2028 simply - Speech Link
3: Sarah Gibson (LD - Chippenham) They rely on the growth and skills levy to train apprentices; without it, they simply cannot take them - Speech Link
4: Andrew Western (Lab - Stretford and Urmston) This Government are on a mission to create an apprenticeship and skills system that drives growth and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Report stage (day 2) - Tue 25 Nov 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None significantly, yet nowhere in this Bill does it guarantee that councillors or auditors will be given the skills - Speech Link
2: Manuela Perteghella (LD - Stratford-on-Avon) Not everyone is online, especially in our rural villages, where digital connectivity is still patchy, - Speech Link