Former education secretary Lord Baker is chairman of the Baker Dearing Educational Trust which promotes the introduction of UTCs.

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Former education secretary Lord Baker, engineering employers, 43 Wessex Brigade and the University of Southampton have all backed the plans.

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The idea of a Tech Bacc has also been supported by former education ministers Labour's Lord Adonis and the Conservatives' Lord Baker.

BBC: 'Tech Bacc' aims to boost status of vocational courses

Two former home secretaries, Liberal Democrat Lord Jenkins of Hillhead and the Tory, Lord Baker of Dorking, told the Sunday Times they favoured decriminalisation.

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Lord Kenneth Baker, chair of the 2001 judges, said it had been a particularly good year for fiction and praised the strength and durability of the shortlist.

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Coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker was referring to allegations by Mohamed al Fayed.

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The programme quoted Lord Carrington, a former British foreign secretary and James Baker, a former American secretary of state, among others.

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