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Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Willie Rennie (Liberal Democrat), on Wednesday, 30 April 2008, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 40 members in total.

VISITS BY SCOTTISH SCHOOLS TO AUSCHWITZ

That this House commends the work of the Holocaust Educational Trust in educating school children throughout the United Kingdom on the history of the Holocaust and the ongoing threats of genocide throughout the world; supports the Government's programme to finance these visits and notes that last year the Trust successfully arranged its first direct flights from Scotland to allow more children in Scotland to participate and to share their experiences with their other school colleagues; but is dismayed to note that the SNP-led Scottish Executive supported by the Tory group in the Scottish Parliament have voted this month against the use of the Barnett consequential amounting to ??150,000 per annum to continue funding these visits in Scotland; and calls upon the Secretary of State for Scotland when he next meets the First Minister to urge him urgently to reconsider this regressive and narrow-minded decision.

Amendments

The Early day motion has received an amendment.

VISITS BY SCOTTISH SCHOOLS TO AUSCHWITZ (1466A1)
The Early day motion has received an amendment sponsored by Angus Robertson (primary, Scottish National Party) and tabled on Thursday, 1 May 2008. It has been signed by 6 members in total.
leave out from `House' to end and add `supports helping all young people understand the Holocaust so that it will never be forgotten; commends the proposed funding by the Scottish Government to support the establishment of a Holocaust Memorial Museum in Scotland which will be of immense value to the educational experience for all Scottish people; notes that under new curriculum in Scotland there will be many opportunities to discuss the Holocaust, including a new emphasis on the rights and responsibilities of individuals and nations, through the forthcoming Religious and Moral Education outcomes which will foster the development of values, beliefs and attitudes, and through Social Studies which include the study of history; further notes that the previous Labour/Liberal Democrat Executive did not provide funding to schools for visits to Auschwitz-Birkenau and that the specific funding announcement by the Department for Children, Schools and Familes in February to pay for two pupils from schools in England to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau came from the department's general budget and therefore it did not generate additional funding for Scotland at that time; welcomes the fact that the SNP government has provided record funding and freed up local authority budgets so that they have the freedom to consider the contribution that study opportunities such as visits to Auschwitz might contribute to meeting agreed national outcomes, and make them available to pupils within their funding allocations; and further welcomes the fact that it continues discussions with the Holocaust Educational Trust on how to provide participation in the project for school students and teachers across Scotland, given the shared commitment to this aspect of teaching and learning'.

Secondary information

Type
Early day motion
Reference
1466 
1466A1 
Session
2007-08
Other sponsors
Mark Lazarowicz
Sandra Osborne
Ian Davidson
Ian Stewart
Gordon Banks
Subjects
Schools Religion
Link
View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk