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Commons Chamber
Breaking Down Barriers to Opportunity - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Gillian Keegan (Con - Chichester) At that time, more than a fifth of children left primary school without achieving basic levels of literacy - Speech Link
2: Gillian Keegan (Con - Chichester) Better still, the progress in international reading literacy study shows that when it comes to reading - Speech Link
3: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and North Perthshire) That is my political mission. - Speech Link
4: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) Demonising the most vulnerable in society is a political choice. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
UN Sustainable Development Goals - Thu 19 Oct 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Virendra Sharma (Lab - Ealing, Southall) Thanks to that meeting, we now have a political declaration. - Speech Link
2: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) There can be and often are other factors—economic, political, cultural, social and historical—but it - Speech Link
3: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) funding will help countries to use education as a tool for sustainable development, focusing on improving literacy - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) It is a most unusual White Paper that depends on wide agreement across the political parties.Let me turn - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Social Care Implementation Strategy (Public Services Committee Report) - Wed 20 Sep 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Morris of Yardley (LAB - Life peer) Take two initiatives from the last Labour Government and the present Conservative Government: the literacy - Speech Link
2: Lord Willis of Knaresborough (LDEM - Life peer) This is far too important for party-political diversity. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Railway Ticket Offices - Wed 13 Sep 2023
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) vending machine without problems.We must also remember the impact of the proposals on those with poor literacy - Speech Link
2: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) The fact that so many Members are present, representing a lot of political parties across the House, - Speech Link
3: Stephen Morgan (LAB - Portsmouth South) Greenwood) made helpful comments about the inadequacies of the consultation, and the impact on those with literacy - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill
Committee stage - Tue 12 Sep 2023
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Earl of Caithness (CON - Excepted Hereditary) efficacy or the impact of legislation; the consultation on the Bill was expressly designed to create a political - Speech Link
2: None The literacy rate has increased from 10% to more than 70% in the last two decades. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) great integrity, knowledge and compassion alongside four female Members of the House from different political - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Life Skills and Citizenship - Thu 07 Sep 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LDEM - Life peer) They are taught about democracy; the importance of voting; human, moral, legal and political rights and - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lawlor (CON - Life peer) For instance, GCSE headings cover such things as the development of the political system of democratic - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barker (LDEM - Life peer) It was born with a huge endowment of political will from the Conservative Party, and it was given the - Speech Link
4: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) It is organised around core content about democracy and the political system. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of School Buildings - Wed 06 Sep 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Gillian Keegan (CON - Chichester) That cannot be right, regardless of party, colour or the political events of the day.I repeat what I - Speech Link
2: Laura Farris (CON - Newbury) cent.”Members must be familiar with this by now, but in this year’s progress in international reading literacy - Speech Link
3: Aaron Bell (CON - Newcastle-under-Lyme) We have rocketed up the league tables not just for reading and literacy, but for maths. - Speech Link
4: James Wild (CON - North West Norfolk) That is vital to continue the major improvements that we have seen in literacy and other standards through - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Advanced Artificial Intelligence - Mon 24 Jul 2023
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Lord Giddens (LAB - Life peer) a far more extensive debate about these issues, because they are so fundamental to a whole range of political - Speech Link
2: Lord Holmes of Richmond (CON - Life peer) my noble friend agree that we should look at a complete transformation of our education system: data literacy - Speech Link
3: Viscount Colville of Culross (CB - Excepted Hereditary) As a result, it is not possible for the user to give political weight to the information given, nor to - Speech Link
4: Viscount Waverley (CB - Excepted Hereditary) Nationally built systems in technological and political silos must be avoided to combat these challenges - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Report stage - Wed 19 Jul 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: Lord Allan of Hallam (LDEM - Life peer) If the political intent is there to exclude the kind of services that I have talked about—the low-risk - Speech Link
2: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (CON - Life peer) and apply the new powers we give them in a way which meets our original intentions, but with the new political - Speech Link
3: Lord Kamall (CON - Life peer) It is a standard problem in political science and often known as principal agent theory, whereby the - Speech Link
4: None : media literacy strategy and media literacy statement(1) OFCOM must prepare and publish a media literacy - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Online Safety Bill
Report stage - Mon 17 Jul 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: None out that it is a new law in a novel area, but he stressed that Ofcom comes to decisions outside the political - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Apart from the fact that heretical scientific and political theories were historically seen as misinformation - Speech Link
3: Lord Clement-Jones (LDEM - Life peer) the discriminatory and“preferential treatment of powerful groups”,including those with significant political - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) become a political plaything. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) There was a worry about political interference then.I do not think that this is just paranoia. - Speech Link