Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone (Con)

My Lords, I too warmly congratulate the noble Baroness on her report: thoughtful, practical, and admirably free from dogma. I think we are all going to ask her to review the report a couple of years’

My Lords, it is a great honour to speak in this debate. It will sound increasingly like an echo chamber in the themes that are raised but, to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, with all that she

My Lords, the gracious Speech spoke of a country in which “every child is included in the nation’s highest aspirations” and in which no child should be held back by poverty, special educational needs

My Lords, I, too, most warmly congratulate the noble Lord on securing this debate. I always think health matters should be handled by a former president of a royal college, and it is excellent that we

Is it possible for the noble Lord to speak a bit louder? We old, deaf people back here find it quite hard to hear him.

The right reverend Prelate’s wife will definitely know that being without education, employment or training has a devastating effect on young people. The consequences for social stability and the fabr