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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 19 Jul 2021
Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]

"My Lords, as ever from the noble Lord, Lord Willetts, these are excellent suggestions and I strongly commend them to the Government.

I would just like to add to his second proposal, which is to

“facilitate universities’ communication through the Student Loans Company with their graduates without passing any personal …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 06 Jul 2021
Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]

"My Lords, this Bill is largely a Bill in search of a policy, and indeed a Bill that is a substitute for policy. It does almost nothing that actually requires legislation. As far as I can tell, there is only one aspect that actually requires a change of the law …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 06 Jul 2021
Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]

"My Lords, the Minister said that over 40 applications for LSIP trailblazers have been received by the department. Could she make them available for the Committee to see? It would be very helpful if, while we are considering the Bill, we could see what is going on in the real …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 02 Feb 2021
Schools: Exam-year Pupils

"My Lords, does the Minister accept that the Covid-19 crisis is itself a highly exceptional circumstance and therefore that there may be many occasions where it would be in the interest of the pupil to repeat a year? The job of the Government is to make that possible, including putting …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Thu 29 Oct 2020
Education (Exemption from School and Further Education Institutions Inspections) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

"My Lords, the arguments for and against this regulation are finely balanced—more finely balanced than some of my colleagues have suggested. When I was Minister for Schools, our principle of action was intervention in inverse proportion to success. There are so many problems that we have to confront in the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 19 Mar 2020
Educational Settings

"First, can the Minister tell us the legal basis under which the Government are acting? She will have picked up the concerns around the House about what happens when people feel that their livelihoods are at stake if they cannot place their children in school. If they do present on …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 11 Sep 2018
Trade Bill

"My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, has just spoken powerfully about the benefits of expert sectoral attachés at our embassies, and I am sure that the Minister will be taking her suggestions seriously.

I make no apology for returning to the critical issue of Northern Ireland, following on from …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 11 Sep 2018
Trade Bill

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Written Question
Department for International Trade: Pay
Wednesday 9th May 2018

Asked by: Lord Adonis (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) staff, and (2) consultants, at the Department for International Trade are paid salaries in excess of £140,000; and to what posts those salaries apply.

Answered by Baroness Fairhead

Information on high earning staff (£150,000 and above) in the Civil Service is in the public domain, accessible via the transparency data reports on gov.uk. The most recent version is the senior officials 'high earners' salaries as at 30 September 2017: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/693864/_150k_2017_Master_for_publication_March_18_update.csv/preview

The Department for International Trade (DIT) does not have any staff paid more than £140,000 but less than £150,000.

UK Export Finance (UKEF) has one member of staff paid more than £140,000 but less than £150,000, in the post of Director of Business Group.

The Department does not hold information on the pay received by individual consultants from their employing company.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 13 Mar 2018
United States Tariffs: Steel and Aluminium

"My Lords, I congratulate the Minister on her appointment, and we wish her well in her trade export work. We commiserate with her, however, for having to repeat that Statement from the Secretary of State for International Trade, which was a catalogue of name calling and impotence. If he had …..."
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