Peter Aldous calls on the Government to meet with those who prepared the East of England IOT bid to agree a strategy to address the lack of Institutes of Technology in East Anglia.
Peter Aldous supports the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill and urges the Government to accept his amendment that would set in place a review of universal credit conditions in order to make it easier for people on universal credit to access education and training and improve their chances in the workplace.
Peter Aldous takes the opportunity of a debate on the annual up-rating of social security benefits and state pension increases to call for more support for the most vulnerable as we face the challenges of the cost of living crisis, specifically we need targeted assistance to protect those for whom the most immediate outlook is bleak.
Peter Aldous calls on the Government to review universal credit conditionality so that people in receipt of universal credit can attend college to acquire the skills in growing sectors such as offshore wind and nuclear power, and urges the Government to support a new clause that he has tabled to the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill.
Speaking in response to an Opposition Day motion calling for a windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas producers, Peter Aldous recognises that the Government needs to help households facing very high energy bills, but says that such a tax would have untold negative consequences.
Peter Aldous speaks in support of a Private Member’s Bill to make British Sign Language (BSL) an official language of the United Kingdom and calls on the Government to introduce a GCSE in BSL as soon as possible in response to the campaign by local campaigners Ann and Daniel Jillings.