Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 25 Jan 2017
Higher Education and Research Bill
"My Lords, I congratulate without qualification those who have put this amendment forward. When I was a young MP in the other place, back in the 1960s, I cut my teeth by making my first major speech on this subject. Anthony Crosland was the Minister at that time and we …..."Lord Judd - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 25 Jan 2017
Higher Education and Research Bill
"My Lords, in at least one of the universities in which I am involved, I know of a specific example where a very able and impressive member of staff was offered, and encouraged to take, a promotion in the department but turned it down because he and his family had …..."Lord Judd - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 25 Jan 2017
Higher Education and Research Bill
"My Lords, the suggestion of an independent review bears very serious consideration. A very difficult issue confronts us on the matter raised in this amendment. In the considerable amount of time that the House has spent in recent years on issues of security, one thing that has always concerned me …..."Lord Judd - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 23 Jan 2017
Higher Education and Research Bill
"My Lords, I speak to my Amendment 298A, which is on the Marshalled List. At this stage of the proceedings, as an older Member of this House, I must be allowed to make an observation. We have gone a long way down the road I predicted. We are trying to …..."Lord Judd - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 23 Jan 2017
Higher Education and Research Bill
"My Lords, I am very interested to find my amendment surrounded by government amendments, and I am not quite sure whether to interpret that as good will from the Government towards my amendment or what. Due process sounds an awfully boring phrase, but it is often terribly important. My amendment …..."Lord Judd - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 23 Jan 2017
Higher Education and Research Bill
"My Lords, the Minister has not altogether reassured me. There is a very important principle in justice that it should not only be done but be seen to be done. There is also an anxiety that it would not be possible to have new applicants who challenged the established order …..."Lord Judd - View Speech
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Written Question
Thursday 19th January 2017
Asked by:
Lord Judd (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Department for Education has undertaken to provide personal data of pupils, including their names, addresses, recent addresses, school addresses and attendance records, to the Home Office specifically for immigration enforcement purposes; and, what steps are they taking to ensure that the collection and transfer of such data do not encourage stigmatisation or racial profiling.
Answered by Lord Nash
The data in the National Pupil Database helps give us a clear picture of how the school system is working. We take privacy extremely seriously and access to sensitive data is strictly controlled. Allowing vetted researchers and academics access to excerpts of this data under strictly controlled conditions, can help the development and improvement of our education system for the benefit of all.
As has always been the case, where the police or Home Office have clear evidence that a child may be at risk or there is evidence of criminal activity, including illegal immigration, limited data including a pupil’s address and school details may be requested from the National Pupil Database. It is right that we share this data if it helps to keep a child safe from harm or to prevent a crime. This does not include nationality and country of birth information recently introduced into school census, which is not placed into the National Pupil Database.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the DfE and the Home Office sets out how this process works and the data which is shared. A copy of the MoU between the Home Office and the DfE, which covers the sharing of limited information between those parties, is available in the house library.
Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 16 Jan 2017
Higher Education and Research Bill
"My Lords, this is a very important amendment. I want to make two points. First, we have already spent a great deal of time talking about the purposes of higher education and the desire to see fully educated, rather than just trained, people going into society and playing their part. …..."Lord Judd - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 16 Jan 2017
Higher Education and Research Bill
"The noble Baroness made the point that a growing number of universities are, of their own volition and initiative, taking action in this area. That is something to be admired and is absolutely right, but democracy is immediate and in the meantime there will be elections. Are we really accepting …..."Lord Judd - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 16 Jan 2017
Higher Education and Research Bill
"My Lords, I commend the amendment. It is enlightened and imaginative. University should be a thrilling and fulfilling experience. Of course it should be testing—there is no question about that—but it should be an experience in which a person develops their potential and begins to flourish intellectually and as a …..."Lord Judd - View Speech
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