To match an exact phrase, use quotation marks around the search term. eg. "Parliamentary Estate". Use "OR" or "AND" as link words to form more complex queries.


View sample alert

Keep yourself up-to-date with the latest developments by exploring our subscription options to receive notifications direct to your inbox

Commons Chamber
Adult and Further Education - Wed 05 Jul 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) , using information collected by the FE workforce data collection, to provide the same sort of information - Speech Link
2: Robin Walker (CON - Worcester)decision to reclassify the FE estate, and it would appear to be an opportunity to give the sector a - Speech Link
3: Andrew Western (LAB - Stretford and Urmston) That forced Trafford College Group last year to take the decision to cease delivery of health and social - Speech Link
4: Lia Nici (CON - Great Grimsby) We are going to calculate the square meterage of the studio so that we can do a lighting plan.” - Speech Link
5: Toby Perkins (LAB - Chesterfield) The primary role at the centre of that qualification of the passing of a single exam, as opposed to the - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill (Fourth sitting)
Committee stage: 4th sitting - Tue 16 May 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Stephanie Peacock (LAB - Barnsley East) As the use of automated decision making evolves and expands, it is crucial that even if a person’s data - Speech Link
2: Stephanie Peacock (LAB - Barnsley East) pandemic, their grades were determined by an algorithm rather than by sitting an exam. - Speech Link
3: Stephanie Peacock (LAB - Barnsley East) Whether it be Royal Mail using the postal digital assistant service to calculate the length of time posties - Speech Link
4: John Whittingdale (CON - Maldon) make optional the previous requirement for data controllers to consult the commissioner when a risk assessment - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Schools Bill [HL]
Committee stage: Part 1 - Wed 15 Jun 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Knight of Weymouth (LAB - Life peer) Is the Minister intending to conduct some kind of regulatory review and consultation prior to Report? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Blower (LAB - Life peer) review, leaving aside the question of Report? - Speech Link
3: Lord Deben (CON - Life peer) is to have proper data. - Speech Link
4: None measure to use here. - Speech Link
5: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (LAB - Life peer) , exam-focused situation that we now find ourselves in. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 26 Apr 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Robert Halfon (CON - Harlow) modelling to calculate the potential cost of an extended school day in England? - Speech Link
2: Toby Perkins (LAB - Chesterfield) The Minister refers to a simpler adult education funding approach, but the decision to increase the adult - Speech Link
3: Gillian Keegan (CON - Chichester) He refers to a previous year, and it is true that we did reduce it to 68%, because that was at the very - Speech Link
4: Dan Jarvis (LAB - Barnsley Central) In respect of the Government’s review, will the Minister commit to working closely with local stakeholders - Speech Link
5: Gavin Williamson (CON - South Staffordshire) That is why we took the decision to increase the funding to support them from £26 million to £42 million - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Exams: Covid-19 - Mon 12 Oct 2020
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Tonia Antoniazzi (LAB - Gower) petitions: one started by Jakia Ali to review the decision to use previous data to calculate exam grades - Speech Link
2: Catherine West (LAB - Hornsey and Wood Green) at their school from the previous year. - Speech Link
3: Daisy Cooper (LDEM - St Albans) earlier to provide more data to determine grades. - Speech Link
4: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) We announced on 17 August the decision to revert to centre assessment grades for all students, or the - Speech Link
5: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) That is why the decision was taken on 17 August to revert to whichever was highest of calculated grades - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Coronavirus Act 2020: Temporary Provisions - Mon 28 Sep 2020
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Based on the same percentages and ratios that this House and the Commons use, I calculate that about - Speech Link
2: Baroness Morrissey (CON - Life peer) debate if we are to get to the right decision. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Thornton (LAB - Life peer) they get exam grades that will allow them to have the future they want, whether they will have a job - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Awarding of Qualifications: Role of Ministers - Wed 09 Sep 2020
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Kate Green (LAB - Stretford and Urmston) how the decision to cancel exams and use calculated grades was taken? - Speech Link
2: Daisy Cooper (LDEM - St Albans) of State decided to use the algorithm to calculate grades. - Speech Link
3: Brendan Clarke-Smith (CON - Bassetlaw) In the end, Ofqual’s decision to use centre-assessed grades was the correct one and the Government were - Speech Link
4: Rob Roberts (IND - Delyn) It is right that we stop to evaluate the methods used to calculate grades and how that process was handled.As - Speech Link
5: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) the exam regulator, Ofqual, and the exam boards would work with teachers to provide grades to students - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Education and Local Government - Tue 14 Jan 2020
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Angela Rayner (LAB - Ashton-under-Lyne) Yet those who stay on are as likely to attain the best grades as any other. - Speech Link
2: Carol Monaghan (SNP - Glasgow North West) Every year round about the time of national exam results there is a great campaign called NoWrongPath - Speech Link
3: Karin Smyth (LAB - Bristol South) use of the available funding. - Speech Link
4: Tom Randall (CON - Gedling) Bill through and honour the decision the people of Gedling took in the 2016 referendum—a decision that - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 14 May 2018
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) The decision to locate and build the new school in Yardley Wood rather than on the Baverstock site is - Speech Link
2: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) It is a far better method of assessing schools than the previous method—five or more GCSEs of A* to C—because - Speech Link
3: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) We have asked the School Teachers’ Review Body to use this flexibility to target the next pay award to - Speech Link
4: Bambos Charalambous (LAB - Enfield, Southgate) pressure on the exam boards to allow my constituent to be awarded the grades he was predicted to get - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill
2nd reading (Hansard - continued): House of Lords - Tue 21 Feb 2017
Department for Exiting the European Union

Mentions:
1: Lord Butler of Brockwell (CB - Life peer) My Lords, like previous speakers, I believe that the people’s decision in the EU referendum requires - Speech Link
2: Lord Triesman (LAB - Life peer) to take an exam in Portuguese which I am not optimistic about. - Speech Link
3: Lord Taverne (LDEM - Life peer) June verdict must be open to review. - Speech Link
4: Lord Elystan-Morgan (CB - Life peer) Exactly what percentage that represents of the laws affecting us I would not like to calculate but it - Speech Link
5: Lord Dobbs (CON - Life peer) the people now want to use this unelected House to defy the people. - Speech Link