Speeches by Cox.

“What proportion of the staff are legally trained?”

“I appreciate that. It makes me go back to a previous question, which was around perceptions of the leadership being remote. How do we weigh those things up if staff are reporting that they feel remote from their leadership?”

“I am Pam Cox, and my interests are as declared on the register.”

“Exactly on that point, how do you then define and measure quality?”

“Will the shadow Minister take some responsibility, on behalf of her party, for the situation that many universities find themselves in?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Vickers. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Bedford (Mohammad Yasin) for securing this important debate. I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I am a member of the UCU and a former professor in higher education. As someone who…”

“I will not give way, if the hon. Member does not mind. I hope we can work at pace today to pass this Bill.”

“Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. The issue is whether we should delay the introduction of this measure to allow more time to set up Skills England. A lot of preparatory work has already been done to set up Skills England, as we discussed quite fully in Committee, and we should get going on training up the carpenters, p…”

“Sorry, Madam Deputy Speaker; I was rather blown away by that. My birthday was actually on Saturday, but thank you so much. It is a pleasure to speak in favour of this Bill, as a member of the Public Bill Committee and of the all-party parliamentary group on apprenticeships. The Bill is vital because it paves the way fo…”

“I have concluded.”

“I am sitting down.”

“I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention, and I agree. This morning, before I travelled to Westminster from Colchester, I visited JTL, a national organisation with a base in our city that trains thousands of apprentice electricians and plumbers, and I had similar exchanges with them. So I very much agree, because th…”

“It is my understanding that the Bill, as unamended, does not preclude the continuation of level 6 and 7 degree apprenticeships. I speak as somebody who worked in the higher education sector before coming here and sees the value of them. It is my understanding that nothing in the Bill rules them out at this point.”

“I am a new member of this Committee, and I am not a lawyer, but I find it quite frustrating to hear that. I am sure the public and all the users of the court and the professionals involved must also find this incredibly frustrating. You are both leaders in this aspect of the judicial field. How are you contributing to …”

“I am just wondering, since we are in that vein, whether we continue the reform discussion and then move to the other areas?”

“Good afternoon. I am the MP for Colchester, and my interests are as declared.”

“It just seems to follow on from what you were saying there, Sir Geoffrey, to ask about the HMCTS reform programme. I understand it has cost £1 billion, and it sounds like it has not delivered anywhere near the kind of change everyone was hoping for. How should we get a grip on it?”

“That sounds very encouraging, and congratulations on the result yesterday of having the property cases brought into scope. What is the strategy for bringing further cases into scope of that committee?”

“How difficult would it be to separate the southern from the eastern circuit, where I am an MP?”

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