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Ministerial statement on Tuesday, 25 October 2005, in the House of Commons, led by Ruth Kelly.

Schools White Paper

Statement on the schools white paper (Cm 6677).

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
438 c169-86 
Session
2005-06
Department
Department for Education and Skills
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Schools White Paper
Tuesday, 8 November 2005
Written questions
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Ruth Kelly | 438 c178-9 (Link to this contribution) In some senses, Mr. Speaker, it is hard to reply. The hon. Gentleman has made a list of eclectic poi...
Ed Davey | 438 c178 (Link to this contribution) Why is Labour retaining central controls and keeping hold of the purse strings? Why is it not provid...
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Ruth Kelly | 438 c179 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for those remarks. He is absolutely right that the purpose of these reforms i...
Bob Blizzard | 438 c179 (Link to this contribution) Before coming into this place in 1997, I worked in one of the previous Government’s grant-maintained...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 438 c173-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Can the Secretary of State confirm that, so far, only one additional indepe...
Ruth Kelly | 438 c174-5 (Link to this contribution) I am truly delighted that the hon. Gentleman has come here today to welcome the proposals in the Whi...
Ruth Kelly | 438 c175-6 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. The hon. Gentleman argued that some schools will want to select by academic ability. He...
Ed Davey | 438 c176-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for her statement and for her answer to the hon. Member for Witney (M...
Speaker | 438 c178 (Link to this contribution) Order. What the Liberal Democrats want has nothing to do with the statement. [Hon. Members: ““Hear, ...
Lord Maples | 438 c181 (Link to this contribution) When the right hon. Lady’s predecessor announced last summer the policy of allowing successful and p...
Ruth Kelly | 438 c181 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend that we need good local schools. The point of the proposals is to ensure...
Ruth Kelly | 438 c180 (Link to this contribution) I have a lot of time for the hon. Gentleman, but I do not think that he quite understands the relati...
Jim Cunningham | 438 c180 (Link to this contribution) May I ask my right hon. Friend who will fix and decide teachers’ pay?
Lord Cormack | 438 c180 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on her splendid statement. Does she agree that she is proposing ...
Ruth Kelly | 438 c180 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. I never want to see a return to selection. I want a state school system that can pro...
Jeremy Corbyn | 438 c180-1 (Link to this contribution) Is the Secretary of State aware that, in inner city communities, where comprehensive schools have im...
Ruth Kelly | 438 c180 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a very important point. Teachers’ pay will be determined by the School Teacher...
Sammy Wilson | 438 c180 (Link to this contribution) I welcome what the Prime Minister described yesterday as a pivotal moment, and what some may describ...
Ruth Kelly | 438 c183 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that my hon. Friend brought that school to my attention. I was very impressed with what I ...
Laura Moffatt | 438 c183 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend recently visited one of our three brand new secondary schools in Crawley. The s...
Ian Gibson | 438 c182 (Link to this contribution) I commend my right hon. Friend’s passion for education, which clearly comes through. What evidence h...
Ruth Kelly | 438 c182 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an interesting point. We have learned from what has worked on the ground. It wo...
Nadine Dorries | 438 c182 (Link to this contribution) Where does this leave the programme of inclusion? Given the closure of so many special schools over ...
Ruth Kelly | 438 c182-3 (Link to this contribution) I would ask the hon. Lady to look at the facts. The proportion of children with statements in specia...
Gordon Marsden | 438 c181 (Link to this contribution) Specialist schools, which my right hon. Friend rightly celebrates, work best when they reach out and...
Ruth Kelly | 438 c181-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to those points of detail. We state in the White Paper tha...
Lord Beith | 438 c182 (Link to this contribution) Will parents and local communities lose their current right of appeal against a local authority deci...
Ruth Kelly | 438 c182 (Link to this contribution) No, I can reassure the right hon. Gentleman about that. The White Paper does not propose reducing lo...
Ruth Kelly | 438 c185 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a reasonable point. The first thing to say is that local authorities will have ...
Richard Shepherd | 438 c185 (Link to this contribution) Education in Walsall is run by Serco. Do the Secretary of State’s statement and the White Paper pres...
Ruth Kelly | 438 c184 (Link to this contribution) They will get a better deal and—to take an example—we are just about to lay the regulations on looke...
Desmond Turner | 438 c184-5 (Link to this contribution) I applaud the fact that my right hon. Friend has turned her face against selection at 11 and her int...
Paul Robert Holmes | 438 c184 (Link to this contribution) Last year, the Education and Skills Committee published its report on school admissions. In 100 page...
Ruth Kelly | 438 c183 (Link to this contribution) The answer is quite simple: I want parents to be able to choose schools. I do not want schools to be...
Kali Mountford | 438 c183-4 (Link to this contribution) In my constituency, the very best schools have done extremely well under this Government. However, i...
Ruth Kelly | 438 c185-6 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that that is the case. I accept that schools are not bursting to come forward with pl...
Clive Efford | 438 c185 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for her statement, but may I ask her whether she believes that...
Ruth Kelly | 438 c186 (Link to this contribution) Under legislation that has already been passed, all new schools that are being proposed will be subj...
Brian Binley | 438 c186 (Link to this contribution) May I thank the right hon. Lady for gladdening my heart? I fear, however, that she has depressed man...
Ruth Kelly | 438 c186-7 (Link to this contribution) I can give my hon. Friend some reassurance on that point. First, the White Paper is also about teach...
Tony Lloyd | 438 c186 (Link to this contribution) We would all approve of certain aspects of the White Paper, such as the concept of clusters of excel...
Ruth Kelly | 438 c169 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement about the reform of schools. Every ch...
Speaker | 438 c169 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Secretary of State must be heard.—[Interruption.] Order. Many Back-Bench Members will wan...
Ruth Kelly | 438 c169-72 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There have been big improvements at GCSE level too, with 63,000 more 16-year...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 438 c172-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for her statement—on the Conservative Benches, I think that feeling g...
Speaker | 438 c173 (Link to this contribution) Order. There is far too much noise. Mr. Cawsey, you are usually a very quiet Member of Parliament an...
John Butterfill | 438 c183 (Link to this contribution) I have great admiration for the right hon. Lady’s intellect, but I am puzzled by her somewhat schizo...
Ruth Kelly | 438 c181 (Link to this contribution) Grammar schools will not be able to expand and I do not want selection to be expanded in the system....
Ruth Kelly | 438 c184 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right to draw attention to the fact not only that standards have been r...
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Discipline Local government Pupils Standards Schools School choice Reform Trust schools
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