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Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bill on Tuesday, 18 July 2006, in the House of Lords.


Education and Inspections Bill

Education and Inspections Bill. Lords Committee stage third day. Clauses 7, 9 to 17 agreed to. Clause 8 agreed to as amended. Schedule 2 agreed to. Clause 18 under consideration. Part 2 of 3 records.


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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
684 c1155-210 
Session
2005-06
Department
Department for Education and Skills
Legislative stage
Committee stage
Procedure
New clauses
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Baroness Crawley | 684 c1210 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move that the House do now resume. Moved accordingly, and, on Question, Motion agreed to. ...
Earl of Mar and Kellie | 684 c1210 (Link to this contribution) Before the Motion is put, could we please ask for a business statement to be made when we reassemble...
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Lord Adonis | 684 c1207-9 (Link to this contribution) We do not have any faith quotas in respect of universities, and I cannot for the life of me imagine ...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 684 c1207 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the Minister’s officials will give some thought to my proposals. After all, the Government a...
Baroness Crawley | 684 c1210 (Link to this contribution) I think that this is an appropriate moment to break. I suggest that the Committee stage begin again ...
Baroness Massey of Darwen | 684 c1209-10 (Link to this contribution) When I began speaking two hours ago, I had thought that we would have concluded the debate before no...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 684 c1199 (Link to this contribution) My 30 per cent target to prevent a school being exclusive was meant to encourage schools of separate...
Lord Dearing | 684 c1199-200 (Link to this contribution) I understand. We have both made our points, and I shall not pursue that matter. I turn to divisiven...
Lord Dearing | 684 c1197-9 (Link to this contribution) My not speaking until now gives me an opportunity to reassure the noble Baroness, Lady Williams, who...
Baroness Walmsley | 684 c1202-4 (Link to this contribution) I have an amendment in this group and I think it is time that I was allowed to speak to it. I have v...
Bishop of Chelmsford | 684 c1200 (Link to this contribution) On Saturday, 10 days ago, I was taking a school service in an independent school in my diocese. The ...
Lord Lucas | 684 c1200-2 (Link to this contribution) I had better speak to my amendments in this group. I have been reminded by the noble Lord, Lord Dear...
Lord Adonis | 684 c1207 (Link to this contribution) I was just about to move on to admissions, which is the second big subject before us. We do not sup...
Earl of Onslow | 684 c1206-7 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord, Lord Baker, produced some extremely interesting conditions in Muslim schools that ha...
Lord Adonis | 684 c1204-6 (Link to this contribution) I think that it is the wish of the Committee that I should now respond to the debate. This has been...
Lord Adonis | 684 c1176-8 (Link to this contribution) Some perfectly legitimate issues have been raised in the debate, and I hope that I can provide the r...
Baroness Williams of Crosby | 684 c1174 (Link to this contribution) Before the Minister replies, I simply add my voice in support of Amendments Nos. 85 and 86. The disc...
Bishop of Peterborough | 684 c1169 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for speaking to these technical amendments. As he said, some of them a...
Lord Adonis | 684 c1168-9 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 73: Page 7, line 45, leave out from ““include”” to end of line 2 on page 8 and...
Baroness Walmsley | 684 c1167-8 (Link to this contribution) I do not care where they come from if I agree with them—and I did agree with many of the amendments ...
Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 684 c1171-4 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 79: Page 9, line 10, leave out ““or”” The noble Baroness said: In moving Amen...
Baroness Warnock | 684 c1170 (Link to this contribution) I am not clear whether Amendment No. 97 means that the local authority will have the ability to insi...
Baroness Walmsley | 684 c1169-70 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister, particularly for putting his name to Amendment No. 104; it was originally our ...
Lord Ahmed | 684 c1187-8 (Link to this contribution) I have no doubt that my noble friend Lady Massey and the noble Baronesses, Lady Tonge and Lady Flath...
Bishop of Peterborough | 684 c1183-6 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the Committee. I hope that I can now speak to my two amendments and to the other amen...
Baroness Tonge | 684 c1182-3 (Link to this contribution) I support the noble Baronesses, Lady Massey and Lady Flather, in tabling this amendment. I hope tha...
Lord Adonis | 684 c1178 (Link to this contribution) The complexity of Clause 18 eludes me at the moment. I will respond to the noble Baroness afterwards...
Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 684 c1178 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for that and for his reassurances on quite a number of the issues that...
Baroness Massey of Darwen | 684 c1179-81 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 81: After Clause 14, insert the following new clause- ““BAR ON ESTABLISHMENT O...
Earl of Onslow | 684 c1181 (Link to this contribution) Order! The noble Baroness, Lady Flather, had her name to this amendment and, while I have been here,...
Bishop of Chelmsford | 684 c1181 (Link to this contribution) In this group, Amendments Nos. 83 and 129 stand in my name and that of the right reverend Prelate th...
Baroness Flather | 684 c1181-2 (Link to this contribution) I feel that we are at a crossroads. It is time for serious decisions. We have to look ahead 10 or 15...
Bishop of Chelmsford | 684 c1181 (Link to this contribution) I did not see the noble Baroness standing. I am sorry.
Lord Taverne | 684 c1196 (Link to this contribution) The point that I was making was that the rabbi said that he wants his kids at school to play footbal...
Lord Ahmed | 684 c1196 (Link to this contribution) Before the noble Lord sits down, he said that the founder of Islamia School said that that school te...
Lord Taverne | 684 c1195-6 (Link to this contribution) I want to add a few words to support the amendment moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Massey. First, ...
Baroness Turner of Camden | 684 c1194-5 (Link to this contribution) I support my noble friend Lady Massey on Amendment No. 205 in this group, to which I have put my nam...
Earl of Onslow | 684 c1194 (Link to this contribution) I rise to support my noble friend Lady Flather, but I also have difficulty with supporting her. That...
Baroness Rendell of Babergh | 684 c1192-4 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak to Amendment No. 81 in the name of my noble friend Lady Massey. My concern is with e...
Baroness Whitaker | 684 c1191-2 (Link to this contribution) In the interests of time, I restrict myself to discussing the amendments in my name and that of the ...
Lord Baker of Dorking | 684 c1188-91 (Link to this contribution) Before I speak to Amendment No. 146A, I want to comment on the speeches of the noble Baronesses, Lad...
Baroness Walmsley | 684 c1155-7 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 66: Page 7, line 23, at end insert- ““(6A) The Secretary of State may by order...
Lord Judd | 684 c1157-9 (Link to this contribution) Lying behind Amendment No. 184 is the concern that we in the Joint Committee on Human Rights registe...
Lord Plant of Highfield | 684 c1161 (Link to this contribution) I, too, am a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights and my name is on the amendment of the no...
Baroness Williams of Crosby | 684 c1160 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may respond to the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, because he is a highly intelligent Member of th...
Lord Lucas | 684 c1161 (Link to this contribution) Of course I agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Williams, about GNVQs and so on. The point that I wa...
Lord Lucas | 684 c1159 (Link to this contribution) The two Liberal Democrat amendments in the group seem a little inconsistent, at least in what they p...
Baroness Morgan of Huyton | 684 c1160 (Link to this contribution) To talk about city academies and the need for a level playing field is to approach the matter in the...
Lord Adonis | 684 c1163-5 (Link to this contribution) No argument causes me moredistress than the one put by the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, that I sho...
Lord Judd | 684 c1165-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank my noble friend for his reply. I think that he is being very candid. However, the devil is o...
Baroness Walmsley | 684 c1166 (Link to this contribution) This has been an interesting debate and I thank the Minister for his response and other noble Lords ...
Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 684 c1161 (Link to this contribution) I add my voice to those supporting Amendment No. 184. What the noble Lord, Lord Judd, said raised so...
Baroness Buscombe | 684 c1161-3 (Link to this contribution) I am compelled to refer to Amendments Nos. 66 and 88 on academies. They look remarkably similar to t...
Baroness Walmsley | 684 c1166-7 (Link to this contribution) I am so sorry; the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, is not in his usual place—he has taken up residence on th...
Baroness Buscombe | 684 c1167 (Link to this contribution) It is what I read in Hansard from the debates that took place in the House of Commons.
Baroness Walmsley | 684 c1167 (Link to this contribution) I accept from her that in this House, as in another place, people from different parties will agree ...
Baroness Buscombe | 684 c1167 (Link to this contribution) I was trying to gently make the point that a number of those amendments were Labour Back-Bench amend...
Baroness Buscombe | 684 c1175-6 (Link to this contribution) I support AmendmentsNos. 85 and 86. We recognise that the SEN amendments would go hand in hand with ...
Lord Adonis | 684 c1170-1 (Link to this contribution) I think that I need to write to the noble Baroness to give her the categorical answer to her questio...
Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 684 c1178 (Link to this contribution) I should also say that I am grateful to the Minister for his reassurances about the closure of speci...
Lord Skidelsky | 684 c1192 (Link to this contribution) I support the non-exclusive version of the faith school amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Bake...
Subjects
Admissions Community development Ballots Closures Community schools City technology colleges Education Further education Inspections Faith schools Foundation schools Local government Parents Pupils Mergers Minority groups Standards Schools Special educational needs School choice Religion Academies Trust schools
Legislation
Education and Inspections Bill 2005-06
Link
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