20 Most Recent Stories From Baroness Walmsley's recent appearances (TheyWorkForYou)

Tue 9th Mar 2010:

<i>Report</i> | Child Poverty Bill | Lords debates.

I thank the Minister for her reply. I hope that when the Secretary of State comes to make these appointments, he or she will read in Hansard the words of the noble Lord, Lord Martin. He has made...

<i>Report</i> | Child Poverty Bill | Lords debates.

Amendment 10 is in my name and, I am pleased to say, in the name of the Minister as well. For that reason I think I can promise your Lordships a very short debate. Schedule 1 sets up the...

Mon 8th Mar 2010:

<i>Second Reading</i> | Children, Schools and Families Bill | Lords debates.

How will the Government check how these measures are implemented in schools in practice at the chalk face?

<i>Second Reading</i> | Children, Schools and Families Bill | Lords debates.

My Lords, this is a curate's egg of a Bill but I am bound to say that the good parts are very much outnumbered by the bad. Given that this will probably be our only opportunity to reflect from...

Women: Violence - <i>Question</i> | Lords debates.

Does the Minister agree that it is important that children have somebody in school in whom they have the confidence to be able to disclose that they have either directly been subjected to...

Thu 4th Mar 2010:

Education: Teaching Excellence - <i>Debate</i> | Lords debates.

My Lords, this has been a wide-ranging and fascinating debate, from the moving speech of the noble Lord, Lord Graham, to the very topical speech of the noble Lord, Lord Bew. I should like to...

Mon 1st Mar 2010:

Sure Start - <i>Question</i> | Lords debates.

In view of the announcements today about secondary school choices, can the Minister say what percentage of toddlers got their first choice of Sure Start centre? Does she agree that parents vote...

Mon 22nd Feb 2010:

Teenage Pregnancies | House of Lords | Written Answers.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many girls under 16 years old became pregnant in each year since 2005; in how many cases the father was also under 16 years old; and in how many cases the...

Tue 9th Feb 2010:

Children: Advertising | House of Lords | Written Answers.

To ask Her Majesty's Government (a) what research and analysis they have conducted, and (b) what research and analysis by other organisations they are aware of, in regard to the effects on...

Tue 2nd Feb 2010:

Banks: Dormant Accounts - <i>Question</i> | Lords debates.

My Lords, I suspected that the answer would be a big fat zero and I have not been disappointed. Is the Minister aware that none of the youth groups with which I have talked knows anything at all...

Banks: Dormant Accounts - <i>Question</i> | Lords debates.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how much money from dormant bank accounts has reached front-line youth services to date.

Thu 28th Jan 2010:

Taxation - <i>Debate</i> | Lords debates.

My Lords, I should like to speak today about young workers, one of the groups most affected by our unfair tax system. They are the people who should be paying less tax, partly because that is...

Education: Language Trends Survey - <i>Question</i> | Lords debates.

My Lords, does the Minister accept that foreign exchange trips are really helpful to young people who are learning languages? Yet a lot of schools are very reluctant to carry them out; indeed,...

Mon 25th Jan 2010:

Ofqual | House of Lords | Written Answers.

To ask Her Majesty's Government when Ofqual will be established; and what was the legal authority for making the Chief Regulator of Qualifications and Examinations Order 2009 (SI 2009/3208).

Wed 13th Jan 2010:

Further Education: Capital Investment - <i>Question</i> | Lords debates.

The Minister said that the LSC met its targets. Is 12 months to process a capital application within the normal targets for that organisation?

Further Education: Capital Investment - <i>Question</i> | Lords debates.

Why does it take so long for the LSC to process capital funding applications? It took nearly 12 months for the NSA Creative & Cultural Skills application to be processed. It then required the...

Prisons: Search and Restraint - <i>Question</i> | Lords debates.

Will the Minister join me in regretting the decision by the YJB to appeal the decision by the Information Commissioner that the restraint manual should be published? Parents at the very least, if...

Tue 12th Jan 2010:

Education: Post-16 Funding | House of Lords | Written Answers.

To ask Her Majesty's Government with reference to press notice 2009/0184 issued by the Department for Children, Schools and Families on 12 October 2009, when they will announce which (a) schools,...

Mon 11th Jan 2010:

Education: English - <i>Question</i> | Lords debates.

Does the Minister agree that speech and language therapists have an important role to play in the performance of spoken English? Given that the posts of these therapists in schools are funded by...

Thu 7th Jan 2010:

Health: Obesity - <i>Debate</i> | Lords debates.

My Lords, there is only one cause of obesity and that is taking in more calories than you use up. For a normal active child on a healthy diet there is really no problem about obesity-the...

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