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Lords Chamber
Public Services: Online Communications - Tue 02 Dec 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, digital inclusion is a priority for this Government, which is why we launched the Digital Inclusion - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hollins (XB - Life peer) My Lords, of the 11 million people who do not have the essential digital skills for life, more than half - Speech Link
3: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) society and we recognise that digital exclusion falls hardest on disabled people. - Speech Link
4: Lord Leong (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, absolutely: digital progress must never mean less choice. - Speech Link
5: Lord Scriven (LD - Life peer) For many people, moving to digital is not acceptable. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sentencing Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Mon 01 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) offender, in prison or on a non-custodial sentence, is expected to do a number of days of education or skills - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) which are hard for people to stomach, will provide more time and resource to supervise education, skills - Speech Link
3: Lord Timpson (Lab - Life peer) although detailed allocations are yet to be finalised, my priorities are clear: more people in post; digital - Speech Link
4: None Earlier today, the Minister told us we should let probation officers have freedom to use their skills - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 01 Dec 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) Any investment in renewables must not mean that we turn our backs on oil and gas workers and lose skills - Speech Link
2: Harriet Cross (Con - Gordon and Buchan) As a result, the companies and the skills that we need for the transition are moving abroad. - Speech Link
3: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab - Salford) Without proper investment in infrastructure, green industries, modern transport, digital systems and - Speech Link
4: Tom Collins (Lab - Worcester) I cannot overstate the impact that the digital revolution is having. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Mon 01 Dec 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Gideon Amos (LD - Taunton and Wellington) All the concerns that lead me to oppose digital ID cards also lead me to oppose a digital ID for all - Speech Link
2: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) The OECD survey of young adults’ skills looks at countries across the OECD, and we were the only country - Speech Link
3: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) Members concerned about it that I do not think it is the precursor to digital ID for our children. - Speech Link
4: Saqib Bhatti (Con - Meriden and Solihull East) England moved to a rich, knowledge-based curriculum, while Wales continued to use a skills-based one. - Speech Link
5: Julian Lewis (Con - New Forest East) Does she accept that we do not want to be introducing a form of digital ID that might persist after the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 01 Dec 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Josh MacAlister (Lab - Whitehaven and Workington) Rolling out technical excellence colleges is one way that Labour is rewiring our skills system, to unlock - Speech Link
2: Josh MacAlister (Lab - Whitehaven and Workington) and other defence industries across the UK, and I will gladly ask my noble friend the Minister for Skills - Speech Link
3: Georgia Gould (Lab - Queen's Park and Maida Vale) We will also deliver a digital national curriculum to ensure that teachers can teach a broad and rich - Speech Link
4: Bridget Phillipson (Lab - Houghton and Sunderland South) We are investing the international student levy into support around skills and access to high-quality - 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
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


Lords Chamber
Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill
2nd reading - Thu 20 Nov 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Lord Raval (Lab - Life peer) distance from once-trusted institutions and the unsettling acceleration of trends intensified by digital - Speech Link
2: Lord Harper (Con - Life peer) He painted a rich picture of the right reverend Prelate’s skills, and I look forward to his future contributions.The - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (Con - Life peer) Countries and regions are moving quickly to secure the investment, the skills and the supply chains that - Speech Link
4: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) It is going to have the skills to negotiate with the hard-faced lawyers sent by the investors to get, - Speech Link