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Debate on Thursday, 17 June 2010, in the House of Commons, led by John Hayes. The answering member was Lord Brennan of Canton.

Building a High-Skilled Economy

Debate on a motion that this House has considered the matter of building a high-skilled economy.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
511 c1067-130 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Anna Soubry | 511 c1122-3 (Link to this contribution) It is kind of you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and generous of my hon. Friend the Member for Stockton Sout...
Iain Stewart | 511 c1081-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to make my maiden speech as the first Member for the new Milton Ke...
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Steve Rotheram | 511 c1083-6 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Milton Keynes South (Iain Stewart) on his maiden speech—a Scotsma...
Lord Wharton of Yarm | 511 c1120-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to address the House for the first time. It is ...
Jason McCartney | 511 c1092-4 (Link to this contribution) I welcome you to your position, Mr Deputy Speaker. Thank you very much for inviting me to make my ma...
Martin Vickers | 511 c1109-11 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate both you, Madam Deputy Speaker, on your appointment and the other Members who hav...
Caroline Nokes | 511 c1086-8 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to make my maiden speech today and, in so doin...
Mel Stride | 511 c1111-4 (Link to this contribution) I offer you my congratulations on your election, Madam Deputy Speaker. I also congratulate all those...
Jake Berry | 511 c1116-7 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful for the opportunity to make this, my maiden speech, today. I understand that maid...
Jane Ellison | 511 c1097-100 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to make my maiden speech and to follow my hon. Friends the Members...
Amber Rudd | 511 c1117-20 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to deliver my maiden speech. I congratulate all new Members who ha...
Andrew Stephenson | 511 c1107-9 (Link to this contribution) First, let me say how delighted I am to see in the Speaker's Chair a neighbouring MP who has given m...
Anne Marie Morris | 511 c1114-6 (Link to this contribution) I feel privileged to have this opportunity to make my maiden speech; I might say that I feel 21 all ...
Speaker | 511 c1081 (Link to this contribution) Order. As I think the House will be aware, the debate is heavily subscribed, and I therefore impose ...
Speaker | 511 c1100 (Link to this contribution) Order. Could the hon. Gentleman please direct comments through the Chair? If you say "you", it refer...
Chris Williamson | 511 c1100 (Link to this contribution) I welcome you to the Chair, Mr Deputy Speaker, and congratulate you on your elevation to such an imp...
John Hayes | 511 c1095 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady will want to know that we are entirely committed to ensuring consistency—indeed synerg...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 511 c1095-7 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the Minister says, but the new Government still have some way to go in setting out more ...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 511 c1094-5 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Jason McCartney) for his maiden speech. He had no...
Speaker | 511 c1091 (Link to this contribution) Order. I know that hon. Members will wish to respect the conventions associated with maiden speeches...
Lord McCabe | 511 c1091 (Link to this contribution) I agree absolutely with my hon. Friend. Employers need help and encouragement, and the only people w...
Stephen Pound | 511 c1091 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the difficulties with apprenticeships is finding an employer t...
John Hayes | 511 c1090 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way for a second time. For the sake of clarity, let ...
Lord McCabe | 511 c1090 (Link to this contribution) Well, the detail is obviously in the letter then, and I look forward to reading it. I was slightly ...
Madeleine Moon | 511 c1091 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware of other initiatives coming out of universities that also help to build the ...
Lord McCabe | 511 c1091 (Link to this contribution) If we are going to create jobs for the future and to have a generation in work rather than unemploye...
John Hayes | 511 c1089 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his tribute and for the information that he has just provide...
Lord McCabe | 511 c1089-90 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to learn that the Minister has taken that information on board. As I have said, it worried...
Lord McCabe | 511 c1090 (Link to this contribution) I will happily give way to the Minister again.
Lord McCabe | 511 c1088-9 (Link to this contribution) Let me begin by congratulating the hon. Member for Romsey and Southampton North (Caroline Nokes) on ...
Chris Williamson | 511 c1102 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely—my hon. Friend makes a pertinent point. If we were to follow the lead of some of our comp...
Gordon Birtwistle | 511 c1102-4 (Link to this contribution) Like other hon. Members, I wish to congratulate the hon. Members for Romsey and Southampton North (C...
Adrian Bailey | 511 c1104-5 (Link to this contribution) I, too, welcome you to the Chair, Mr Deputy Speaker. This is the first time I have had the privilege...
Amber Rudd | 511 c1105-6 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether other hon. Members receive complaints about the education maintenance allowance, as...
Chris Williamson | 511 c1101 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is being a little unfair. He fails to recognise the huge expansion in the service...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 511 c1101 (Link to this contribution) Labour Members consistently harp on about how Conservative policies in the 1980s affected manufactur...
Chris Williamson | 511 c1100-1 (Link to this contribution) I beg your pardon and thank you for that correction, Mr Deputy Speaker. I will endeavour to ensure t...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 511 c1101 (Link to this contribution) In a debate that took place yesterday, the Minister for Universities and Science pointed out that ma...
John Pugh | 511 c1102 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks about the British train industry and construction in this country, but does...
Chris Williamson | 511 c1101 (Link to this contribution) Again, hon. Members on the Government side of the House are demonising trade union activists, but De...
Gordon Birtwistle | 511 c1101 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman comment on the actions of Red Robbo, who closed down the old Austin Rover pl...
Stephen Pound | 511 c1102 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that one tragedy of current British manufacturing and skills is that contr...
Chris Williamson | 511 c1102 (Link to this contribution) Clearly, we live in a global economy, in which orders are placed with different companies around the...
Ed Davey | 511 c1129 (Link to this contribution) Before I let the right hon. Gentleman in, let me say that I hope that when he gets to his feet he ad...
David Lammy | 511 c1129-30 (Link to this contribution) It is the hon. Gentleman who is in government so I think he ought to answer the question put by my r...
Ed Davey | 511 c1130 (Link to this contribution) Well, one of the things the House needs to understand is that we have a different approach to FE and...
Ed Davey | 511 c1128-9 (Link to this contribution) Of course that is true of many modern economies, but I think it ill behoves the Labour party to crit...
Pat McFadden | 511 c1129 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman has mentioned apprenticeships again, can he tell the House whether, in the 12 ...
Ed Davey | 511 c1129 (Link to this contribution) That is interesting. We have to compare that with what the previous Government were planning. When w...
David Lammy | 511 c1125-6 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. I was disappointed not to see a reference to higher education in the motion and not to hear...
David Lammy | 511 c1123-5 (Link to this contribution) Madam Deputy Speaker, may I welcome you to the Chair and wish you very well in your new role in the ...
Adrian Bailey | 511 c1128 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister not acknowledge that one of the reasons for that was the huge increase in the serv...
Ed Davey | 511 c1128 (Link to this contribution) What I have noticed about the targets set by the previous Government—which the right hon. Gentleman ...
David Lammy | 511 c1127 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman can tell us when we will see those 50,000 apprentices.
Ed Davey | 511 c1126-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to welcome you, Madam Deputy Speaker, to the Chair. You and I debated with ea...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 511 c1076-7 (Link to this contribution) It would be remiss of me if I did not welcome the hon. Gentleman to the House. I also pay tribute to...
John Hayes | 511 c1077 (Link to this contribution) Given the spirit that has permeated our exchanges thus far, and indeed today, I know that the shadow...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 511 c1077-8 (Link to this contribution) I am always happy to argue for more investment and capital for our FE colleges, but later I may retu...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 511 c1073 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Gentleman confirm that the extra £50 million that he describes as capital has been take...
John Hayes | 511 c1073-5 (Link to this contribution) I have already celebrated the hon. Gentleman's assiduity, and his numeracy skills are obvious, too. ...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 511 c1075-6 (Link to this contribution) May I start by apologising to the House for the fact that I will not be able to be present for the w...
Robert Halfon | 511 c1076 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks about the importance of Train to Gain, so why did the previous Government c...
John Hayes | 511 c1073 (Link to this contribution) I want to make progress; I will give way later. The hon. Gentleman has had one turn, and although I ...
John Hayes | 511 c1073 (Link to this contribution) I will give way once more, and then I really must make some progress, because a number of hon. Membe...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 511 c1080-1 (Link to this contribution) It is a joy to listen to the Minister, and I am glad that he at last came up with some poetry and qu...
John Hayes | 511 c1080 (Link to this contribution) We cannot allow this to stand, can we? I hope that I wear the weight""Of learning lightly like a flo...
Speaker | 511 c1080 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I say to the Minister that the erudition of his intervention was equalled only by its len...
John Hayes | 511 c1078 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to interrupt the hon. Gentleman too often, and I will give him some poetry, if I get a...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 511 c1078 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman rises to acknowledge that.
Lord Brennan of Canton | 511 c1072 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman saying that some of the new apprenticeships that he is announcing that he will...
John Hayes | 511 c1072 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is far too experienced a Member to expect me to give on-the-hoof guarantees of th...
Lord McCabe | 511 c1073 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
John Hayes | 511 c1073 (Link to this contribution) No; I am saying that some of the existing apprenticeships may not be classified so, and that the new...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 511 c1072 (Link to this contribution) I am sure we are all enjoying the hon. Gentleman's theatrics this afternoon, but will he look at som...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 511 c1072 (Link to this contribution) How many of the 50,000 new places that the hon. Gentleman is announcing can he guarantee to the Hous...
John Hayes | 511 c1072 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady must not deceive new Members—[Interruption.] I know she would not do so—except inadver...
John Hayes | 511 c1071 (Link to this contribution) That requires not so much an answer as a seminar, but I shall try to summarise in a sentence or two ...
John Hayes | 511 c1071 (Link to this contribution) I give way to my hon. Friend who in his maiden speech has already made his commitment to skills, and...
John Hayes | 511 c1070-1 (Link to this contribution) I want to be generous; as you know, Mr Deputy Speaker, that is in my character. I know that the hon....
Adrian Bailey | 511 c1070 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his kind words. I welcome him to his position and look forward to seeing hi...
John Hayes | 511 c1070 (Link to this contribution) I happily give way to the new Chairman of the Select Committee, whom I welcome in that role.
John Hayes | 511 c1069-70 (Link to this contribution) Well, I said I was interested in dance. I am interested in sufficient drama to add to the theatrical...
John Hayes | 511 c1068 (Link to this contribution) There is no doubt that the relationship between research and development and the kind of dynamism th...
Robert Halfon | 511 c1071 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on doing so much to push forward our policy for 100,000 apprenticeship...
John Hayes | 511 c1067 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of building a high skilled economy." It is...
Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 511 c1067 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I should like to invite him to join me in paying tribute to the Ope...
John Hayes | 511 c1067 (Link to this contribution) I happily give way to my hon. Friend, who has been such a resolute champion of the Open university i...
John Hayes | 511 c1068 (Link to this contribution) The fact that I anticipated my hon. Friend's intervention merely gives it more force. He is right to...
Lord McCabe | 511 c1068 (Link to this contribution) In the context of international competition, how worried is the Minister by the letter in today's Th...
Adrian Bailey | 511 c1106-7 (Link to this contribution) Certainly in its early days there were some complaints, but they have not been reflected in my const...
Chris Williamson | 511 c1101 (Link to this contribution) Labour Members harp on about the 1980s because of what happened then. The policies of the previous C...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 511 c1078-80 (Link to this contribution) I am slightly surprised by that comment, because the hon. Gentleman seemed at first in his speech to...
John Hayes | 511 c1072 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Lady, who always takes such an assiduous interest in education matters.
Subjects
Business Competition Adult education Economic situation Skilled workers Economic recession
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