In Parliament - Toby Perkins MP

Toby in Parliament

My recent contributions in Parliament can be found below. All of my contributions in Parliament, since I was elected in 2010, can be found here

Covid-19 Update

Commons debates

The Health Secretary’s attempt to divide and rule the Mayor and the Members of Parliament in Manchester is absolutely transparent. It is shameful that some of those Conservative colleagues,...

Colleges and Skills: Covid-19

Westminster Hall debates

Will the Minister confirm whether the “Get Help to Retrain” scheme has been scrapped?

Colleges and Skills: Covid-19

Westminster Hall debates

I thank the hon. Member for Waveney (Peter Aldous) for securing the debate. He is a powerful advocate for our colleges as the chair of the all-party parliamentary group for further education and...

Local Contact Tracing

Commons debates

Yes, I do, and I had an experience of that recently. Leicester had a rate of 100 per 100,000 when it went into lockdown. In Chesterfield, we have a rate of 143 per 100,000, and we are still in...

Local Contact Tracing

Commons debates

I spent an early part of my career in the sales industry, selling in the IT sector. I just wish that at some point I had come across a customer with as much money as this Government, and one so...

Covid-19 Economic Support Package

Commons debates

I was really frustrated by the sense, in some of the interventions on my hon. Friend the shadow Chancellor, that the Labour party, in making this extremely serious suggestion, was taking lightly...

Clause 1 - Welfare of children: 16 to 19 Academies and further education

Education and Training (Welfare of Children) Bill

Toby Perkins made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I could not agree more. It is important that children and young people with autism and the particular vulnerabilities that they face are not left out of our discussions. It is absolutely right...

Clause 1 - Welfare of children: 16 to 19 Academies and further education

Education and Training (Welfare of Children) Bill

Toby Perkins made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I am glad that the hon. Gentleman took the opportunity to say that. Having read the Hansard record of the first debate, I know how many people spoke in it and that the intentions behind the Bill...

Clause 1 - Welfare of children: 16 to 19 Academies and further education

Education and Training (Welfare of Children) Bill

Toby Perkins made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for City of Durham for introducing the Bill, which is an important piece of legislation. We all feel strongly about the importance of apprenticeships...

Covid-19 Economic Support Package

Commons debates

The hon. Member is absolutely right about the appalling health and economic consequences of this. Do he and his party support the advice from SAGE for a two-week circuit-breaker so that we can...

Covid-19 Economic Support Package

Commons debates

There seems to be a basic dishonesty at the heart of these tier 2 plans. There is no support for pubs. They are being told that they are allowed to stay open, but the measures being brought in...

Covid-19 Economic Support Package

Commons debates

The Chancellor’s response would have more credibility if he was not stood there following month after month of failure by a Government whose testing and tracing regime—whose entire...

Covid-19 Economic Support Package

Commons debates

Will my hon. Friend give way?

Topical Questions

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Toby Perkins made a speech in the House of Commons

The Iranian regime routinely commits human rights atrocities and abuses against its people, with, recently, the execution there of Navid Afkari. It plays an appalling role in the destabilisation...

Covid-19 Update

Commons debates

The Prime Minister will be as aware as anyone that people do not generally go to the pub to meet their own wife; they go to the pub to be with other people. In the current programme that the...

Apprenticeships

Toby Perkins made a speech in the House of Commons

The Minister is right to say that apprenticeships are more important than ever, but for all the rhetoric, the way that the Government introduced the apprenticeship levy saw level 2 and level 3...

Apprentices

Department for Education

Toby Perkins received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of level (a) 2 and (b) 3 apprenticeships were completed by (i) Further Education colleges and (I) independent providers in each year...

Apprentices

Department for Education

Toby Perkins received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Level 3 apprenticeships were (a) started and (b) completed in each year from 2010 to date.

Apprentices

Department for Education

Toby Perkins received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Level 2 apprenticeships were (a) started and (b) completed in each year from 2010 to 2020.

Further Education: Expenditure

Department for Education

Toby Perkins received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money from the public purse has been spent on capital improvements to further education colleges in each year since 2000.