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Lords Chamber
Skills: Importance for the UK Economy and Quality of Life - Thu 09 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Aberdare (XB - Excepted Hereditary) These are increasingly important in the modern world, in both our work and personal lives. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) SMEs making use of languages are 30% more successful in exporting than those that do not. - Speech Link
3: Earl of Clancarty (XB - Excepted Hereditary) The particular modern usage fits our current, very specifically framed, educational system. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (Lab - Life peer) Modern Wales has much to be commended on in its innovative work. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Media Bill
Committee stage part one - Wed 08 May 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) These amendments move to set Reithian standards and values in a more modern context.We want public service - Speech Link
2: None Gaelic is on UNESCO’s list of endangered languages. - Speech Link
3: Lord Wigley (PC - Life peer) are British languages. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Con - Life peer) the more prescriptive the obligations on them are, the harder it becomes for them to compete in the modern - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education: Arts and Humanities - Wed 01 May 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) Humanities and modern foreign languages are absolutely central and at the heart of the EBacc, but we - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Report stage - Tue 30 Apr 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: None ) of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001;(c) an offence under any of sections 1, 2 or 4 of the Modern - Speech Link
2: Lord Wills (Lab - Life peer) What constitutes a “close family member” in the modern world? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) I remind the House that there is equal status between the two languages—in Wales, both English and Welsh - Speech Link
4: Lord Bellamy (Con - Life peer) In modern society, there is effectively no set structure for a family and the Government need flexibility - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 29 Apr 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Craig Tracey (Con - North Warwickshire) programme, an amazing initiative providing young people with the life skills they need to survive in the modern - Speech Link
2: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) Indeed, the Balfour declaration set up the creation of the modern state of Israel. - Speech Link
3: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) to switch careers and retrain as secondary teachers in shortage subjects such as science, maths and modern - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Educational Trips and Exchanges - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) boost has stalled and barely a month goes by without yet another university announcing cuts in its modern - Speech Link
2: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) own language instead of just speaking English loudly.We are very concerned that modern languages have - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) foreign languages in our curriculum. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Carter of Coles (Lab - Life peer) about the committee was that it took us into a wide range of issues and showed how difficult it is for modern - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) This might be housing six people, often speaking different languages. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) that it is everybody’s subject, but I am a member of our House’s committee currently reviewing the Modern - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Report stage - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) place.I remind the House that there is more than one murder a week abroad, involving different countries, languages - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) have been made to the national referral mechanism, the framework for identifying potential victims of modern - Speech Link
3: None back to the point that the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss, made about the victims of modern - Speech Link
4: None exploitation; the data is collected under the particular offences, whether that be misuse of drugs or modern - Speech Link
5: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) I remind the House about my various interests in relation to languages and linguists.In Committee, I - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
United Kingdom: Union - Thu 14 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Humphreys (LD - Life peer) nation, and people have the right to use their first language, whichever language that is, or both languages - Speech Link
2: Lord Cameron of Lochiel (Con - Life peer) Languages belong to everyone and, as I said earlier, I have taken a long interest in promoting the Gaelic - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Welsh Affairs - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Virginia Crosbie (Con - Ynys Môn) In 1588, Queen Elizabeth I, who spoke Welsh, among other languages, and was descended from the Tudors - Speech Link
2: Ben Lake (PC - Ceredigion) Access to the internet has long been an essential, not a luxury, for people in the modern age, but our - Speech Link