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Debate on bill on Friday, 16 May 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Sharon Hodgson. The answering member was Lord Brennan of Canton.

Special Educational Needs (Information) Bill

Special Educational Needs (Information) Bill. Report stage. New Clause 1 debated and withdrawn. Third reading debate. Agreed to on question. Bill passed.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
475 c1650-702 
Session
2007-08
Department
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Legislative stage
Third reading
Report stage
Procedure
New clauses
Private members' bills proceedings
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Christopher Chope | 475 c1701-2 (Link to this contribution) In this short contribution, I want to add my congratulations to the hon. Member for Gateshead, East ...
Annette Brooke | 475 c1698-9 (Link to this contribution) I, too, reiterate my congratulations to the hon. Member for Gateshead, East and Washington, West (Mr...
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Lord Brennan of Canton | 475 c1699-701 (Link to this contribution) It is my great pleasure to speak on the Third Reading of the Bill of my hon. Friend the Member for G...
Sharon Hodgson | 475 c1695-6 (Link to this contribution) As I mentioned in Committee, the needs of deaf children deserve strong consideration as we try to im...
Maria Miller | 475 c1696-8 (Link to this contribution) I should like to take this opportunity to congratulate again the hon. Member for Gateshead, East and...
Sharon Hodgson | 475 c1685-95 (Link to this contribution) I thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for that guidance. If hon. Members will indulge me, I have one m...
Speaker | 475 c1695 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am listening carefully to the hon. Lady's contribution. She is dealing with things that are...
Sharon Hodgson | 475 c1685 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a very pertinent and valid point. I will be making a similar point later in...
Speaker | 475 c1685 (Link to this contribution) Order. Could I just remind hon. Members who wish to contribute to the Third Reading debate that we a...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 475 c1678 (Link to this contribution) It is the job of the Secretary of State to do that, and it is right that he should do so. Moreover, ...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1678 (Link to this contribution) If the Minister is about to announce an important concession, I apologise for intervening. However, ...
Annette Brooke | 475 c1681-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for Gateshead, East and Washington, West (Mrs. Hodgson) for her comments and...
Sharon Hodgson | 475 c1679-81 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the issues raised by the amendments, and I have some sympathy with their intentions. I hop...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 475 c1673-5 (Link to this contribution) The guidance under ““Aiming high for disabled children”” refers to the core offer, and to clear info...
Annette Brooke | 475 c1672-3 (Link to this contribution) I have two points. Has there been any evaluation of the children's information services that should ...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 475 c1675-8 (Link to this contribution) I will certainly undertake to consider that suggestion in conjunction with my colleague, Lord Adonis...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1675 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has comprehensively dealt with that issue, but can he assure the House that, when he ha...
Maria Miller | 475 c1672 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister tell the House how many times he has pulled up a local authority for not publishin...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1685 (Link to this contribution) On the Dore website, there is a very interesting definition of dyslexia:"““Being dyslexic has no ref...
Sharon Hodgson | 475 c1685 (Link to this contribution) I listened with interest to the hon. Gentleman's interventions earlier, especially with regard to th...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1685 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady accept that the best way of ensuring that we know about such children is to provi...
Sharon Hodgson | 475 c1683-4 (Link to this contribution) The short answer is yes. Baroness Pitkeathley is to guide the Bill through the House of Lords on my ...
Nigel Evans | 475 c1683 (Link to this contribution) From a sedentary position, the Minister said that the Bill had to go to the Lords first, and clearly...
Sharon Hodgson | 475 c1682 (Link to this contribution) I meant to mention commencement on Report. I will be biting at the heels of the Secretary of State—[...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1682 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Lady on the Bill and its progress. Has she had any indication of when the Go...
Sharon Hodgson | 475 c1682 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. I am delighted to be here for this stage o...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 475 c1670 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for being so generous in giving way. On the subject mentioned by the ...
Maria Miller | 475 c1670 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his intervention. I know that the subject of deaf and hearing-impaired chil...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 475 c1670 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has made a good point. I am sure that she will want to welcome the fact that Lord Adon...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 475 c1671-2 (Link to this contribution) I echo the comments made by the hon. Member for Basingstoke (Mrs. Miller) about my hon. Friend the M...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 475 c1666 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has raised rhetoric and reality, and makes a political point on this issue. That is fa...
Maria Miller | 475 c1669-70 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. We need to consider all the interfaces that the children ha...
Maria Miller | 475 c1666-9 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for clarifying that, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am keen to discuss the Bill, because it will ...
Speaker | 475 c1666 (Link to this contribution) Order. That is out of order, because we are discussing a particular new clause and set of amendments...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1665 (Link to this contribution) I agree. In some cases, the best provision might be in a neighbouring local authority area, or even ...
Kelvin Hopkins | 475 c1665 (Link to this contribution) I agree that full information about all provision should be made available. The hon. Gentleman menti...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1665 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for that explanation. I would include Hampshire as well, because much...
Annette Brooke | 475 c1665 (Link to this contribution) I should not be tempted to intervene, but the purpose of the new clause is to make it easy for paren...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1664 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that, Madam Deputy Speaker, and your admonition will enable my constituents to know tha...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1664-5 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. New clause 1 defines the information to be provided as including"““information on all ty...
Nigel Evans | 475 c1664 (Link to this contribution) In my 16 years as a Member of Parliament, many parents have come to see me about their children, who...
Nigel Evans | 475 c1665 (Link to this contribution) That information should be made easily available to parents, as it is important that they know where...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1665 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. At the moment, there is an element of forum shopping. Parents wh...
Maria Miller | 475 c1666 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the opportunity to speak to the new clause and amendments, including amendments Nos. 2 and...
Maria Miller | 475 c1663 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend may be right to question the level of training that the Government are giving to teac...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1663 (Link to this contribution) I am not saying that there is no training, but there is insufficient training. If there was more tra...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1663-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful case and I look forward to hearing her contribution to this debate s...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1662 (Link to this contribution) I accept that I am citing but one example of available information. May I explain what has happened ...
Speaker | 475 c1662 (Link to this contribution) Order. I think that I have already made it clear to the hon. Gentleman that we have heard a consider...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1662 (Link to this contribution) Of course I will widen my remarks. I shall begin by discussing the symptoms, which we know exist, of...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1662-3 (Link to this contribution) A couple of weeks ago, I visited the tennis academy in Roehampton. People there say that in order to...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 475 c1663 (Link to this contribution) A moment ago the hon. Gentleman said that the Government are not training teachers in any of these m...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1662 (Link to this contribution) I certainly hope that my hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke sees the merit in the Dore programme...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 475 c1662 (Link to this contribution) That was not the point I was going to make. I was going to ask whether the hon. Gentleman is urging ...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1661 (Link to this contribution) The best thing to do would be to hear from my hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Mrs. Miller) o...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 475 c1661 (Link to this contribution) I take it from the hon. Gentleman's remark that his understanding of his Front-Bench team's position...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1660 (Link to this contribution) Exactly, Madam Deputy Speaker, and that is what I am trying to concentrate on. At present the Govern...
Maria Miller | 475 c1661 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend might be interested to know a little more of the detail of the inquiry by Sir Jim Ros...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1661 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is an expert in this field and she has made a valuable contribution to this debate du...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 475 c1660 (Link to this contribution) In the light of my earlier intervention, how can the hon. Gentleman say that the Government are supp...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1660-1 (Link to this contribution) I am basically relying on the answer to the parliamentary question to which I referred. I accept tha...
Speaker | 475 c1660 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have allowed some digression, but I remind the hon. Gentleman that we are discussing the ne...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1660 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that that is going to happen, but I fear that it is an unnecessarily prolix way of dealing...
Nigel Evans | 475 c1659 (Link to this contribution) Is it possible that one reason for the lack of publicity about the programme—of which I was complete...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1658-9 (Link to this contribution) I do agree, and I would go further. Not only does Scott Quinnell talk about his problems and, indeed...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 475 c1660 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware that, as part of his investigation of dyslexia, Jim Rose will examine al...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1659 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. The problem is not a lack of information, but the fact that parents are bei...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1658 (Link to this contribution) This is an important group of amendments, but amendment No. 1 in the name of the hon. Member for Mid...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1658 (Link to this contribution) I know that my hon. Friend is an active supporter of the Welsh rugby team, and he will remember Scot...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 475 c1658 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the fact that someone like Scott Quinnell has been able to come o...
Kelvin Hopkins | 475 c1657-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree absolutely with my hon. Friend. In the past, getting any information out of my local authori...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 475 c1657 (Link to this contribution) Would my hon. Friend agree that although there is always pressure to bring in provisions such as new...
Annette Brooke | 475 c1655-6 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Interventions are important at all levels, but the purpose of the ...
Speaker | 475 c1655 (Link to this contribution) Order. I hoped that the hon. Gentleman's remarks were going to relate to new clause 1. Perhaps the h...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1655 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is making a telling point. Is she aware that the very successful Dore programme that w...
Kelvin Hopkins | 475 c1655 (Link to this contribution) Reports in this morning's newspapers suggest that failure to deal with dyslexia has cost the economy...
Annette Brooke | 475 c1655 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman. The report by Xtraordinary People points out that there are hard costs t...
Annette Brooke | 475 c1654-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady—she is right. When I say that parents and others are impatient, I am suggestin...
Annette Brooke | 475 c1650 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Speaker | 475 c1650 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments: No. 2, in clause 1, page 1, lin...
Annette Brooke | 475 c1650-2 (Link to this contribution) In Committee, I indicated that I wanted to return to the issue of information provided to parents by...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 475 c1652 (Link to this contribution) I should like to return to some of the hon. Lady's earlier remarks. She mentioned that she was not m...
Annette Brooke | 475 c1652-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his intervention. He may be aware that my constituency has a number of coun...
Annette Brooke | 475 c1654 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his intervention. I hope that I said that the statement was welcome; I atte...
Maria Miller | 475 c1654 (Link to this contribution) Back in 2004, in the policy document, ““Removing Barriers to Achievement””, which was launched by th...
Speaker | 475 c1664 (Link to this contribution) Order. I repeat that perhaps the hon. Gentleman could relate his remarks to the new clause. Interest...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 475 c1654 (Link to this contribution) I understand what the hon. Lady is saying, but does she welcome the fact that when the Secretary of ...
Lord Brennan of Canton | 475 c1672 (Link to this contribution) It would not be for me in my ministerial role to do that. I shall attempt to acquire inspiration for...
Maria Miller | 475 c1670-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that intervention, but I caution him to ensure that he has spoken to all th...
Speaker | 475 c1662 (Link to this contribution) Order. I appreciate the hon. Gentleman's remark about the particular programme that he is discussing...
Kelvin Hopkins | 475 c1656-7 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak briefly. I listened with interest to the intelligent remarks of the hon. Member for Mi...
Christopher Chope | 475 c1669 (Link to this contribution) During the discussion on that subject in the Welsh Assembly on 7 November last year, the point was m...
Subjects
Assessments Disclosure of information Classroom assistants Hearing impairment Finance Dyslexia Local government Pupils Teachers Special educational needs Training
Legislation
Special Educational Needs (Information) Bill 2007-08
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