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Lords Chamber
English Horticultural Sector (Horticultural Sector Committee Report) - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Redesdale (LD - Life peer) employs more than 50,000 people, although different measures put the value far higher. - Speech Link
2: Lord Colgrain (Con - Excepted Hereditary) education about nature more than any previous one. - Speech Link
3: Earl of Caithness (Con - Excepted Hereditary) material to and from the EU; at least one breeding partnership between the UK and the continent has - Speech Link
4: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) Starkly, that is through illegal recruitment fees, loans taken to pay them from loan sharks and organised - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Student Loan Interest Rates - Wed 27 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Sikka (Lab - Life peer) Can the Minister explain why the interest rate on student debt is higher in real terms than the equivalent - Speech Link
2: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) that under the new plan 5 loans 61% of new full-time borrowers will repay their loans in full, with - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) look instead at the Scottish model and also at the position of EU students on pre-settled and settled - Speech Link
4: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) We have continued to increase the maximum loans and grants for living costs each year, with the most - Speech Link
5: Lord Hampton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) these days are being sold the dream of a degree, when they would be much better suited to the route of education - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Spring Budget 2024 - Mon 18 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) We do this because lower tax means higher growth, and higher growth means more opportunity, more prosperity - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bowles of Berkhamsted (LD - Life peer) I was told by EU officials I could not exempt what was not covered. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) EU partners, and that accounted for £1.1 trillion of UK trade in 2022. - Speech Link
2: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) If she will make an assessment with the Secretary of State for Education on the potential merits of introducing - Speech Link
3: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Wealden) In my previous response, I wanted to expose the opportunities and grants that are available to ensure - Speech Link
4: Kevin Hollinrake (Con - Thirsk and Malton) That is why Scotland has a 30% higher failure rate than England. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) higher education system. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Wolf of Dulwich (XB - Life peer) higher education system. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) higher education system. - Speech Link
4: Lord Blunkett (Lab - Life peer) higher education system. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) Part-time learning misses out on grants and even loans. - Speech Link
6: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) The higher education sector blossomed and flourished. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Arts - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) , importantly, trade with the EU for our brilliant crafts men and women has virtually ceased, which obviously - Speech Link
2: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) decline but with the Brighton Festival, the arrival of higher education and the development of a college - Speech Link
3: Lord Browne of Madingley (XB - Life peer) For many years, I have been a patron of Paintings in Hospitals, a charity which loans artworks to health - Speech Link
4: Lord Grantchester (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) DCMS grants have grown by 4%.However, great things are happening. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (LD - Life peer) We need joined-up education and skills development, the reopening of negotiations with the EU, and joined-up - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Hospitality Sector: Fiscal Support - Wed 31 Jan 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Although I welcome higher income and a rise in the minimum wage to address the wage disparity in this - Speech Link
2: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) tourism but in care, education, health and other sectors. - Speech Link
3: John Nicolson (SNP - Ochil and South Perthshire) The Labour leader tells us there is “no case” for rejoining the EU. - Speech Link
4: Nigel Huddleston (Con - Mid Worcestershire) Since we left the EU, we have been taking advantage of multiple reliefs. - Speech Link
5: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) In my speech I mentioned the extension of covid loans for businesses that have those loans. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Statement 2023 - Wed 29 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Thomas of Gresford (LD - Life peer) Education and rehabilitation courses have been dramatically curtailed. - Speech Link
2: Lord Weir of Ballyholme (DUP - Life peer) and more than £0.5 billion higher next year. - Speech Link
3: Lord Londesborough (XB - Excepted Hereditary) That involves skills, training and proper levels of investment in education, yet our education budget - Speech Link
4: Baroness Thornhill (LD - Life peer) But these are loans to housing associations to allow them to build more affordable homes for rent. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
UK Export Performance - Mon 18 Sep 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Nigel Huddleston (CON - Mid Worcestershire) already providing valuable services to Vietnam’s growing economy, from the British Council expanding education - Speech Link
2: Nigel Huddleston (CON - Mid Worcestershire) to business to help our businesses to prosper, generate new jobs and pay higher wages. - Speech Link
3: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) Jobs linked to exports pay on average higher than average wages in the UK. - Speech Link
4: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) in my constituency, continue to have access to those research grants. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Report stage - Mon 18 Sep 2023
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Pinnock (LDEM - Life peer) will enable councils to fill the gaps in private provision, which are more likely to be in areas of higher - Speech Link
2: None procedures to be applied in determining applications for grants and questions of liability to awards - Speech Link