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Debate on bill on Wednesday, 24 May 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Alan Johnson. The answering member was Lord Willetts.

Education and Inspections Bill

Education and Inspections Bill. Report stage second day. Concluded. Third reading debate agreed to on division (422 to 98). Passed.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
446 c1484-600 
Session
2005-06
Department
Department for Education and Skills
Legislative stage
Third reading
Report stage
Procedure
New clauses
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Roger Berry | 446 c1488 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. There is an issue about the needs of the child and the wishes o...
John Hayes | 446 c1488 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a telling point, and he is right that parental wishes are paramount in thes...
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Roger Berry | 446 c1487-8 (Link to this contribution) In new clause 4(5) the proposal is that a child with special educational needs"““shall not be educat...
John Hayes | 446 c1486-7 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to speak to new clause 4, and the other new clauses and amendments in this group. Fo...
Speaker | 446 c1484-6 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: New clause 5—Restrictions on special scho...
John Hayes | 446 c1489 (Link to this contribution) I would be delighted to give way to my hon. Friend.
John Hayes | 446 c1488-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes another important point—a slightly different one from the hon. Gentleman’s—about...
John Hayes | 446 c1488 (Link to this contribution) Because the war that has been waged since Warnock has not been a war against children being integrat...
Sally Keeble | 446 c1488 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept, however, that in addition to people campaigning for special schools,...
John Hayes | 446 c1484 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Angela C Smith | 446 c1491 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman. The Education Act 1996 makes it clear that one of the criteria for placi...
John Hayes | 446 c1491 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Lady, who was an outstanding servant of the House when she served on the Stan...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 446 c1492 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman; I have been very patient. As he is interested in statistics, I ...
John Hayes | 446 c1492 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is about to intervene on me with an even more salient and clever point than I anticipat...
John Hayes | 446 c1491 (Link to this contribution) The difficulty, as the hon. Lady will know from her experience in this House and previously, is that...
John Hayes | 446 c1492 (Link to this contribution) I have given way so often that I am beginning to tire of my own verbiage, but I will do so again.
John Hayes | 446 c1492 (Link to this contribution) Yes, but the hon. Gentleman will know that many of those openings have been special units within mai...
John Hayes | 446 c1489 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. My hon. Friend has been a great champion of Nuffield. I was able to add to his campaign ...
John Bercow | 446 c1489 (Link to this contribution) The intellect of Einstein and the eloquence of Demosthenes warrant a bigger audience than my hon. Fr...
John Hayes | 446 c1490 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman needs to study the new clause. Subsection (3) says:"““If a statement is maintaine...
Roger Berry | 446 c1489 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman does not want a one-size-fits-all policy and wants to be non-ideological and r...
John Bercow | 446 c1490 (Link to this contribution) May I simply underline the rather obvious point that we do not need to have some sort of Manichaean ...
John Hayes | 446 c1490 (Link to this contribution) The point is twofold. First, special needs are dynamic, because their causes are often dynamic. A ch...
Angela Watkinson | 446 c1505-7 (Link to this contribution) I want to speak in favour of new clauses 4 and 5. New clause 4 relates to the provision of education...
Nadine Dorries | 446 c1500 (Link to this contribution) It is important to mention that about two thirds of all children excluded from school have special e...
Gordon Marsden | 446 c1500-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. She will see, as I continue with my remarks, that I will...
Betty Williams | 446 c1503 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that quite a number of the exclusions from schools and LEAs that involve p...
Annette Brooke | 446 c1499 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman. I know, of course, that the Select Committee is carrying out that inquir...
Gordon Marsden | 446 c1499-500 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to speak to new clause 30 and other new clauses and amendments tabled by me and my ho...
John Hayes | 446 c1500 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Gentleman’s contribution to the debate and, indeed, the important new clauses tha...
Gordon Marsden | 446 c1500 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for those remarks. I would not want to prejudge the final deliberations o...
Barry Sheerman | 446 c1499 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady might know that the Education and Skills Committee is nearing the end of a thorough in...
Annette Brooke | 446 c1497-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Mr. Hayes) suggested that Warnock had been perni...
Angela C Smith | 446 c1496-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, but it is important that the local people who elect the...
John Bercow | 446 c1496 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady rightly says that there is merit in mixed provision. I entirely accept that. However, ...
Angela C Smith | 446 c1495-6 (Link to this contribution) I greatly enjoyed the comments of the hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Mr. Hayes). He...
Nadine Dorries | 446 c1496 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for giving way, and for mentioning the naming of a school in a statement. Is s...
Anne Snelgrove | 446 c1493 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his generosity in giving way. He is being as generous as he was in Co...
John Hayes | 446 c1493-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady knows me too well to believe that I would make nakedly party political points about th...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 446 c1492 (Link to this contribution) I want to speak against the hon. Gentleman’s new clause. As he has been addressing the House, I have...
John Hayes | 446 c1492 (Link to this contribution) As ever, the hon. Lady makes a good contribution to the debate. I was enjoying it immensely until sh...
Nadine Dorries | 446 c1512 (Link to this contribution) In fact, my speech is concerned with new clause 5, which deals with the closure of special schools. ...
John Hayes | 446 c1512-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Kingswood (Roger Berry) is being untypically obtuse, even though he has been in ...
Nadine Dorries | 446 c1513 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for rescuing me from my difficulty. I want the Minister to say whether the G...
Angela C Smith | 446 c1513 (Link to this contribution) I acknowledge the hon. Lady’s kind words about Labour Sheffield, but if the Government have weighted...
Nadine Dorries | 446 c1513 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Lady will not be surprised to hear that I have absolutely no idea of what ha...
Nadine Dorries | 446 c1513 (Link to this contribution) I wanted to mention a remark made to me yesterday by a Labour Member, but I shall leave it till late...
Roger Berry | 446 c1512 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the hon. Lady the question that I put earlier to the hon. Member for South Holland and The...
Nadine Dorries | 446 c1512 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Mr. Hayes) has answered that already, ...
Roger Berry | 446 c1512 (Link to this contribution) With respect, I was referring to new clause 4(5).
Lord Blunkett | 446 c1509 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. Derbyshire has understood the message that is coming across loud an...
John Hayes | 446 c1509 (Link to this contribution) Would the right hon. Gentleman join the hon. Member for Blackpool, South (Mr. Marsden) in calling fo...
Lord Blunkett | 446 c1507-9 (Link to this contribution) I confess to the hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Mr. Hayes) that, at one time, I was...
Anne Snelgrove | 446 c1509 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is making an important point, and I have been of the same opinion for years. Sm...
Kelvin Hopkins | 446 c1512 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady will know from her recent Adjournment debate that I agree with what she has been sayin...
Nadine Dorries | 446 c1512 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I want the Minister to clarify whether the Governm...
Lord Blunkett | 446 c1509-10 (Link to this contribution) I am hoping that the Education and Skills Committee review that is taking place, and the Ofsted them...
Nadine Dorries | 446 c1510-2 (Link to this contribution) We have all been elected to represent the most disadvantaged in our constituencies. From that perspe...
John Bercow | 446 c1507 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend made some important remarks a moment ago about the need to improve and to maximise re...
Angela Watkinson | 446 c1507 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for those comments. We are all only too well aware of the shortage of such sp...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 446 c1514-5 (Link to this contribution) This has been a good debate, which deserves more than seven minutes for my response. It is occasiona...
Nadine Dorries | 446 c1513-4 (Link to this contribution) I agree that LEAs perform what is called provision mapping, which works for some but not for others....
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 446 c1513 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady accept that the Education Select Committee heard a lot of evidence from local aut...
Speaker | 446 c1525-9 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: New clause 39—Retention of selection by ab...
Baroness Teather | 446 c1525 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
John Hayes | 446 c1516 (Link to this contribution) This has been a good debate, albeit a short one. It has illustrated the strong feelings on the subje...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 446 c1515-6 (Link to this contribution) I cannot give the hon. Gentleman a precise answer because I was not an Education Minister at the tim...
John Hayes | 446 c1515 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman and I take his point, but will he tell us why in 2001 the Government drop...
Baroness Teather | 446 c1531-2 (Link to this contribution) There is no reason why local authorities should not work together on the system. The key point is t...
Nick Gibb | 446 c1532-3 (Link to this contribution) I listened carefully to the hon. Member for Brent, East (Sarah Teather), who seems to have a skewed ...
Baroness Teather | 446 c1531 (Link to this contribution) It would have to act in accordance with the code and, indeed, with the selection criteria submitted ...
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 446 c1531 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady appears to accept that the local education authority may not be unbiased and impartial...
Baroness Teather | 446 c1531 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not accept that. The local authority is far more likely than a school to be impartial, as i...
Jim Cousins | 446 c1531 (Link to this contribution) How would that system deal with applications across a local authority boundary? There are a consider...
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 446 c1531 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady takes the view that local authorities do not have any reason to favour one school over...
Baroness Teather | 446 c1529-30 (Link to this contribution) The amendments relate to what is probably the most controversial aspect of our debate. What has conc...
Nick Gibb | 446 c1534 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. The value added tables reveal which schools are genuinely adding ...
Nick Gibb | 446 c1533 (Link to this contribution) I have not met such a head teacher when I have been going round. I ask head teachers, ““Are you on p...
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 446 c1534 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for paying such glowing tribute to Wellington high school in my cons...
Baroness Teather | 446 c1533 (Link to this contribution) The problem is that heads have admitted that. It is not as though someone has done a survey and susp...
Nick Gibb | 446 c1533 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is making the same point as the hon. Member for Brent, East, who is leading for the Li...
Helen Jones | 446 c1533 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman believes what he is saying about the intake, can he explain the Sutton Trust f...
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 446 c1559 (Link to this contribution) I am prepared to support the Bill because the current Government and the future Government thankfull...
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 446 c1558 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Paul Farrelly), especially as he re...
Baroness Teather | 446 c1560 (Link to this contribution) When the hon. Gentleman makes that position clear, presumably he will also make it clear that new cl...
Sadiq Khan | 446 c1559 (Link to this contribution) That is precisely the point. While the status quo remains for the hon. Gentleman’s constituents, he ...
Anne Snelgrove | 446 c1559 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 446 c1559 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has fallen into the trap about which I was warning hon. Members—defending abysmal perf...
Anne Snelgrove | 446 c1558-9 (Link to this contribution) I beg the hon. Gentleman’s pardon—I was discussing going to get a cup of tea, so I was not entirely ...
Speaker | 446 c1594 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman must talk about the contents of the Bill.
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 446 c1596-600 (Link to this contribution) There have been some very interesting discussions and deliberations over the past two days. However,...
Clive Efford | 446 c1595-6 (Link to this contribution) There is much in the Bill that deserves to be supported and I accept the efforts that have been made...
Ian Stewart | 446 c1591 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Ian Stewart | 446 c1591 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Willetts | 446 c1591 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that time is very limited, so I hope that hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I do not giv...
Gordon Prentice | 446 c1591 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State told me yesterday that a great many schools would opt for trust status by the...
Lord Willetts | 446 c1591 (Link to this contribution) I would not like to give an estimate, but I believe that we should encourage schools to become trust...
Alan Johnson | 446 c1590 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend gives me the opportunity to mention the ground-breaking scheme introduced by the loca...
Lord Willetts | 446 c1590-1 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can begin by paying tribute to the work that has been done by hon. Members on both sides o...
Lord Willetts | 446 c1593 (Link to this contribution) We will use the powers in the Bill to make it easier for schools to expand. We will use the powers i...
Ian Stewart | 446 c1593 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Speaker | 446 c1593 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Member for Havant (Mr. Willetts) has made it clear that he will not give way.
Lord Willetts | 446 c1592 (Link to this contribution) Of course we wish to support the grammar schools that survive—they are institutions with a long hist...
Sally Keeble | 446 c1569 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend the Minister deal with the point about the readmission of excluded pupils?
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 446 c1568 (Link to this contribution) I cannot give my hon. Friend a definite commitment on timescale. We have to allow time for the new a...
Paul Farrelly | 446 c1568 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises the interesting and practical idea of pilot schemes. Would he consider pilotin...
David Chaytor | 446 c1568 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will know that new clause 24 is very similar to new clause 46, which I tabled, and I ...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 446 c1566-8 (Link to this contribution) We have had a lively debate on school admissions. The Bill creates a more equitable and transparent ...
Alan Johnson | 446 c1589 (Link to this contribution) No. We have amended the Bill so that the best local authorities will automatically be able to put f...
Mary Creagh | 446 c1590 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the proposals in the Bill relating to school food provide for t...
Baroness Teather | 446 c1588 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Alan Johnson | 446 c1588 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. Valid concerns have been raised during the...
Alan Johnson | 446 c1588-9 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not, as time is limited. We have confirmed that no school will be forced to become a tru...
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 446 c1561-2 (Link to this contribution) I assure the hon. Gentleman that he does not know my borough as well as I do. If he did, he would kn...
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 446 c1561 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows that I do argue for precisely that, and not just in Greater Manchester. I a...
Brian Binley | 446 c1566 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that that point has been made, because I expected it and am therefore able to reject ...
Ian Stewart | 446 c1566 (Link to this contribution) Who, other than ladies, can have children?
Brian Binley | 446 c1566 (Link to this contribution) I reject that sedentary observation. I shall ignore it, and continue my remarks to the Secretary of ...
Brian Binley | 446 c1565 (Link to this contribution) I see that the Secretary of State is not moving all that quickly, so I will.
Anne Snelgrove | 446 c1566 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman will be disappointed. The draft code for admissions specifically ban...
Rob Wilson | 446 c1552 (Link to this contribution) That is not true. The figure of 70 per cent. is not correct; it is much lower than that. As I said,...
David Chaytor | 446 c1552 (Link to this contribution) Is not the hon. Gentleman making my case for me? My argument is that selection leads to greater divi...
Rob Wilson | 446 c1552 (Link to this contribution) I will deal with that in a second.
Rob Wilson | 446 c1552 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. However, I do not want to dwell on the internal battles wit...
Damian Green | 446 c1552-3 (Link to this contribution) As, I think, the only pupil from Reading school in the Chamber—[Hon. Members: ““We rest our case.””]...
Rob Wilson | 446 c1553 (Link to this contribution) I am mindful of Madam Deputy Speaker’s ruling.
Rob Wilson | 446 c1553 (Link to this contribution) The idea that a ballot of parents provides legitimacy is a fig leaf for the views of the hon. Member...
Rob Wilson | 446 c1554 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point, and I am sure that the Minister will respond later. Secondl...
Brian Binley | 446 c1556 (Link to this contribution) As one of those failures who did not pass the 11-plus but was a very good boy indeed, I resent your ...
Paul Farrelly | 446 c1555-6 (Link to this contribution) I, too, shall speak to the new clauses moved by my hon. Friend the Member for Bury, North (Mr. Chayt...
Speaker | 446 c1556 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind the hon. Gentleman of the terms of address. Those certainly were not my remarks.
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 446 c1557 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman share my concern that the highest levels of independent education often occu...
Paul Farrelly | 446 c1556-7 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his ascent. He speaks eloquently, but perhaps he should listen ...
John Hayes | 446 c1558 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman paints a misty-eyed—some would say myopic—view of the comprehensive ideal. Does h...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 446 c1542 (Link to this contribution) Let me add my voice to the consensus to which the hon. Gentleman alluded. The School Standards and ...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 446 c1538 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that Mr. Woodhead, who is listening to this debate, has now abandoned his support of the T...
David Chaytor | 446 c1543-5 (Link to this contribution) The point is that the new clause would deal with the remaining anomalies in the system. I take it as...
Damian Green | 446 c1545-6 (Link to this contribution) I wish to speak against unnecessary disruption in our schools and in favour of local choice, and the...
David Chaytor | 446 c1545 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend anticipates my final remarks. The great advantage of new clauses 39 and 40 is that th...
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 446 c1542-3 (Link to this contribution) Thankfully, common sense prevailed in the Ripon ballot. I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on at leas...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 446 c1542 (Link to this contribution) I have described what happened. The balloting arrangements are deeply flawed: the hon. Gentleman and...
Frank Dobson | 446 c1548 (Link to this contribution) As I understand it, the national policy of the Conservatives, as enunciated by their new, old Etonia...
Speaker | 446 c1548 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman has made his case.
David Chaytor | 446 c1546 (Link to this contribution) Nothing in new clause 39 would lead to the abolition of any school. It may cause some schools to cha...
Gwyn Prosser | 446 c1548 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman paints a picture of Kent that I do not recognise, and nor would my colleagues or ...
Rob Wilson | 446 c1551 (Link to this contribution) I am about to go into that, if the hon. Gentleman will bear with me. Reading school for boys and Ke...
Sally Keeble | 446 c1549-50 (Link to this contribution) I will keep my comments brief because I know that a large number of other hon. Members want to take ...
Sally Keeble | 446 c1551 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree. I tabled a couple of amendments on the matter, but they are not being debated, s...
David Chaytor | 446 c1551 (Link to this contribution) Why cannot more children attend those schools?
Annette Brooke | 446 c1534 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Gentleman give us some indication of the ages to which his figures relate? It is often ...
Nick Gibb | 446 c1534-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady could be making a valid point, but the figures do not show that. She is right in that ...
Nick Gibb | 446 c1536-7 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not propose that. We are trying to create a grammar school sort of education for the top se...
Nick Gibb | 446 c1537 (Link to this contribution) The answer to that question is no—
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 446 c1559-60 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman reads my remarks on Second Reading, he will see that I made some of these poin...
Sadiq Khan | 446 c1559 (Link to this contribution) In the light of the hon. Gentleman’s comments and those of the hon. Member for Reading, East (Mr. Wi...
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 446 c1559 (Link to this contribution) No, I have dealt with the point. I have a specific obligation in the debate because, as hon. Member...
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 446 c1560 (Link to this contribution) I will, but I was listening carefully to the hon. Lady’s opening remarks on this subject—brief as th...
Barry Sheerman | 446 c1595 (Link to this contribution) I only want two more minutes."The fact is that this Bill is not radical or revolutionary; rather, it...
Barry Sheerman | 446 c1594 (Link to this contribution) I am supporting this Bill, Mr. Speaker, because it is based on the principle of judging the evidence...
Clive Efford | 446 c1596 (Link to this contribution) I fully accept that and I made that point in my opening remarks. Indeed, the education action zone i...
Angela C Smith | 446 c1596 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend acknowledge that the Government have already done a great deal to direct resourc...
Lord Willetts | 446 c1591-2 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I will try to make progress in very limited time. Conservative Members have consis...
Baroness Teather | 446 c1593-4 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure how to follow that extraordinary love-in between the hon. Member for Havant (Mr. Wille...
Ian Stewart | 446 c1592 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way on that point?
Lord Willetts | 446 c1592-3 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can look forward to a day when a Conservative Secretary of State is in office, and is able...
Ian Stewart | 446 c1592 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way on that point?
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 446 c1568-9 (Link to this contribution) Foundation schools, including those with trusts, are already proven. They have effectively been pilo...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 446 c1569-70 (Link to this contribution) I have every intention of doing so, but I felt that many colleagues wanted to hear what I had to say...
Baroness Teather | 446 c1570-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for his recognition that distortion of admissions policy occurs on the...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 446 c1568 (Link to this contribution) If there are admissions forums that want to pursue the hon. Lady’s first point, my officials would b...
Baroness Teather | 446 c1568 (Link to this contribution) When we discussed this issue in Committee, I pointed out that there was no reason why faith criteria...
Clive Efford | 446 c1589 (Link to this contribution) I wanted the opportunity to engage with my right hon. Friend on a number of issues that, I think, ar...
Speaker | 446 c1589 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry to disappoint the hon. Gentleman, but Third Reading is not the occasion to raise p...
Alan Johnson | 446 c1590 (Link to this contribution) Incidentally, through this Bill and other policies, we are targeting attention on the most disadvant...
Speaker | 446 c1575 (Link to this contribution) Order. I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the No Lobby.
Clive Efford | 446 c1589 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Sammy Wilson | 446 c1562 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman also accept that the selective education system in Northern Ireland not only...
David Chaytor | 446 c1561 (Link to this contribution) If I did not explain that then, I shall explain it now. The borough of Trafford sucks in children fr...
David Chaytor | 446 c1561 (Link to this contribution) In that case, why is the hon. Gentleman so opposed to new clause 39? He should be supporting it, bec...
David Chaytor | 446 c1560 (Link to this contribution) I do not believe that the hon. Gentleman is mistaken. I know that his majority depends on the parent...
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 446 c1560 (Link to this contribution) Well, the hon. Gentleman may be right, but his majority in Bury, North might prove more elusive than...
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 446 c1560 (Link to this contribution) Well, there we are—as with everything else for the Liberal Democrats, this is a matter for local dis...
Baroness Teather | 446 c1560 (Link to this contribution) We have always made it clear that this is a matter for local discretion, just as new clause 39 allow...
Brian Binley | 446 c1565 (Link to this contribution) I realise that time is short, so I shall be brief, but I cannot resist commenting on the fact that t...
Anne Snelgrove | 446 c1565 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Martin Linton | 446 c1563-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak briefly to amendment No. 112, but I do not advise hon. Members to reach for the amendm...
Martin Linton | 446 c1564-5 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend and constituency neighbour, who knows all too well that the effect of se...
Sadiq Khan | 446 c1564 (Link to this contribution) Is not one of the problems that that loophole allows the possibility of future sets of children and ...
Rob Wilson | 446 c1552 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Gentleman.
Rob Wilson | 446 c1552 (Link to this contribution) Can it wait? The hon. Lady’s intervention yesterday was hardly useful. Merely a year ago, the local...
Anne Snelgrove | 446 c1552 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Speaker | 446 c1554 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Member for Reading, East (Mr. Wilson) may wish to reply.
Nadine Dorries | 446 c1554 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware that city academies use a banding system for admission? They take a percenta...
Rob Wilson | 446 c1553-4 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that, as she did yesterday, the hon. Lady shows her ignorance of both the historical and...
Anne Snelgrove | 446 c1553 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Speaker | 446 c1553 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind the House that our debate is time-limited. If hon. Members are to take interventions...
Paul Farrelly | 446 c1557-8 (Link to this contribution) When I was at my comprehensive in Newcastle-under-Lyme, I very much enjoyed going out to the ice rin...
Paul Farrelly | 446 c1558 (Link to this contribution) I favour schools with mixed ability that level up, not down, for everybody. Again, I cite the eviden...
David Chaytor | 446 c1540-1 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak to the group of amendments tabled by myself, but may I say first that I agreed complet...
Nick Gibb | 446 c1540 (Link to this contribution) No, it is genuinely based on the belief that if we set flexibly but comprehensively—not rigidly—with...
Nick Gibb | 446 c1538-40 (Link to this contribution) Chris Woodhead is a friend of mine, and we discuss these issues at great length. I am sure that he w...
Patrick Hall | 446 c1545 (Link to this contribution) The points that my hon. Friend has just made about Northern Ireland and Scotland will, I presume, en...
David Chaytor | 446 c1542 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has raised an important point. He has rightly forced me to clarify my point about...
David Chaytor | 446 c1543 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman asked me the same question in a Manchester BBC studio about two weeks ago. The an...
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 446 c1543 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman does, and I might even be tempted to vote for it. However, surely tho...
Damian Green | 446 c1548 (Link to this contribution) The answer to the question put by the hon. Member for Dover (Gwyn Prosser) is: many. Very few head t...
Damian Green | 446 c1546 (Link to this contribution) New clause 39 would enable the prejudices of the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues to be imposed on ...
Annette Brooke | 446 c1546-7 (Link to this contribution) I feel that we have already debated the question of parental views and voting. Does the hon. Gentlem...
Damian Green | 446 c1547 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I do think that it is reasonable. That is precisely the point that I am making. I oppose new c...
David Chaytor | 446 c1551 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that 70 per cent. of the intake of the wholly selective schools in Reading comes ...
Damian Green | 446 c1548-9 (Link to this contribution) The logic was very well explained by my hon. Friend the Member for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton (M...
David Chaytor | 446 c1549 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman is so confident that the people of Kent would support the status quo and that ...
Damian Green | 446 c1549 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is not listening to what I am saying. I am not frightened of that, but I saw what...
Sadiq Khan | 446 c1551 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend as concerned as me to ensure that the effect ofclause 94, which deals with reinteg...
Rob Wilson | 446 c1551 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Northampton, North (Ms Keeble) on her speech and on bringing a di...
Nick Gibb | 446 c1534 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a good point. First, all the figures that I have cited are for secondary schools...
Helen Jones | 446 c1534 (Link to this contribution) May I try to tease out some more precise figures from the hon. Gentleman? Does he have any informati...
Anne Snelgrove | 446 c1536 (Link to this contribution) There will be no need to reintroduce the 11-plus because a grammar stream will be created in an alle...
Sally Keeble | 446 c1537 (Link to this contribution) Does the Conservative party intend to scrap its commitment to grammar schools, or is the hon. Gentle...
Nick Gibb | 446 c1537 (Link to this contribution) I said that we would not reintroduce the 11-plus and selection. We are committed to getting all acad...
Lord Taylor of Goss Moor | 446 c1537 (Link to this contribution) I very much agree with the hon. Gentleman’s argument. Would he go further and advocate getting rid o...
Nick Gibb | 446 c1535 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady uses the term, ““rigid””. Setting is by definition flexible—that is how it differs fro...
Anne Snelgrove | 446 c1535 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that rigid setting is as bad as blanket mixed ability teaching? Perhap...
Nick Gibb | 446 c1535-6 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Gentleman has seen the text of my speech. I am about to deal with that precise poin...
Lord Willis of Knaresborough | 446 c1535 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman speaks with great conviction on these issues, and in many ways I agree with him a...
Lord Willetts | 446 c1592 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I have only four minutes. It would not be right for me to give way. There is clear...
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 446 c1562-3 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely accept that it does, and that is also the case in other areas that retain selective edu...
Nick Gibb | 446 c1537-8 (Link to this contribution) I will come to that in a moment. We believe that we can ensure that academically able children rece...
John Hayes | 446 c1490 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to give way to the hon. Gentleman again. If he wants to speak, Mr. Speaker, perhaps h...
John Hayes | 446 c1490 (Link to this contribution) I will indeed give way to my hon. Friend, because whereas the hon. Member for Kingswood has had thre...
Gordon Marsden | 446 c1504 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. I know of her strong interest in these issues, and she ...
Angela C Smith | 446 c1496 (Link to this contribution) My local education authority has an agreement with our academies that they will take children with s...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 446 c1515 (Link to this contribution) I can respond to interventions or to the debate—I am in the hon. Gentleman’s hands.
John Hayes | 446 c1552 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend familiar with the work on the subject by Lord Adonis, the Prime Minister’s special...
Anne Snelgrove | 446 c1553 (Link to this contribution) I shall be brief. The hon. Gentleman was silent in Committee, so it is interesting to hear his views...
Brian Binley | 446 c1556 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for that advice, Madam Deputy Speaker. I take exception to those remarks. Does the hon. Ge...
Barry Sheerman | 446 c1594 (Link to this contribution) It with reluctance, almost, that I rise to speak. I feel embarrassed at not having participated in t...
David Chaytor | 446 c1541-2 (Link to this contribution) No, they have listened carefully to the arguments and considered the evidence about the impact of se...
Paul Farrelly | 446 c1540 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has talked about time scales and changes of mind, but I seem to recall that the C...
Subjects
Access Children Codes of practice Children in care Admissions Applications Ballots Administration Closures Cooperation Education Governing bodies Grammar schools Foundation schools Interviews Parents Local education authorities Membership Pupils Travel Standards Schools Special educational needs Secondary education Trust schools
Legislation
Education and Inspections Bill 2005-06
Link
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