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Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bill on Wednesday, 7 April 2010, in the House of Lords, led by Baroness Morgan of Drefelin.

Children, Schools and Families Bill

Children, Schools and Families Bill. Lords committee stage. Clauses 1 to 14, 19 to 27 disagreed. Schedule 1 disagreed. Clauses 15 to 18, 28 to 51 agreed to, with clauses 45 and 50 agreed to as amended. Schedules 2 and 3 agreed to. Schedules 4 and 5 agreed to as amended. Bill reported with amendments. Report and third reading agreed without debate. Bill passed and returned to the Commons with amendments.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
718 c1575-608 
Session
2009-10
Legislative stage
Committee stage
Third reading
Report stage
Procedure
Government defeats
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 718 c1608 (Link to this contribution) 48: Clause 50, page 38, line 3, leave out "Sections 27 and 44 come" and insert "Section 44 comes" A...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 718 c1608 (Link to this contribution) 51: Clause 55, page 32, line 1, leave out subsection (3) 52: Clause 55, page 32, line 8, leave out...
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Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 718 c1608 (Link to this contribution) 47: Schedule 5, page 54, line 24, leave out from beginning to end of line 34 on page 55 Amendment 4...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 718 c1575 (Link to this contribution) We did! It was a great celebration. On this basis, we were able to provide guarantees for pupils and...
Baroness Walmsley | 718 c1580-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, people manage despite all kinds of disadvantages, and somehow people managed to procreate....
Lord Faulkner of Worcester | 718 c1583 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the noble Baroness will forgive me but the Companion is quite clear that length of speec...
Baroness Walmsley | 718 c1583-4 (Link to this contribution) I point out to the noble Lord that this is our only opportunity to debate this subject in any depth....
Baroness Massey of Darwen | 718 c1584-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall be very brief. I agree with much of what the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, has sa...
Lord Northbourne | 718 c1585 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not believe that this time of night is the moment at which to have a profound debate ...
Baroness Gould of Potternewton | 718 c1585-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise with great regret to say that I will do something that I have never done in the 13 ...
Baroness Perry of Southwark | 718 c1587 (Link to this contribution) I realise that feelings are running very high among noble Lords who have spoken so far, but there is...
Lord Howarth of Newport | 718 c1587-8 (Link to this contribution) I have one brief thought to add to the powerful, and surely incontrovertible, arguments of the noble...
Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 718 c1588 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was also going to point out to the noble Baroness, Lady Perry, that while there are many...
Lord Lucas | 718 c1577 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, what the Liberal Democrats are experiencing is a moment—a very rare moment—when we act as ...
Lord Alton of Liverpool | 718 c1577 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it would be tedious at this late hour to keep the House for very long—
Baroness Verma | 718 c1576 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we are delighted that the Government have tabled amendments to remove Clauses 1, 2 and 3 f...
Lord Northbourne | 718 c1578 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will not detain the Committee. I simply want to say that I am grateful to the Government...
Baroness Walmsley | 718 c1578 (Link to this contribution) 16: Clause 11, page 14, line 7, leave out subsections (8) and (9)
Lord Alton of Liverpool | 718 c1577 (Link to this contribution) At Second Reading, I made a long speech which the noble Lord, Lord Lawson, can perhaps take the trou...
Lord Lawson of Blaby | 718 c1580 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that she was not taught all this when she was at school. How did she manage?
Baroness Walmsley | 718 c1578-80 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I feel like the boy who stood on the burning deck when all around had fled. I and so many ...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 718 c1597-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope I can do as my noble friend suggests. I start by saying that the Government take ve...
Lord Judd | 718 c1596-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, briefly, I warmly support what the noble Baroness has said. As usual, she has put the case...
Lord Judd | 718 c1598 (Link to this contribution) Will my noble friend give way? I am listening very carefully to what she says but does she not accep...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 718 c1593 (Link to this contribution) I do not wish to detain the House any further. The House is aware of the discussions that have taken...
Baroness Walmsley | 718 c1593 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we on these Benches regret that the Government wish not to proceed with Clause 27, which g...
Baroness Walmsley | 718 c1594-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 40 in my name and that of the noble Lord, Lord Judd, and the noble...
Baroness Walmsley | 718 c1594 (Link to this contribution) 40: After Clause 30, insert the following new Clause— "Reasonable punishment (1) The Children Act 20...
Baroness Walmsley | 718 c1591 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to interrupt the Minister again, but will she accept that, with the support of the Libera...
Baroness Walmsley | 718 c1591 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am not going to say anything further about Amendment 16 because I should like to move to...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 718 c1591 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am being absolutely clear that it was not possible for the Government to accept that chi...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 718 c1590-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am going to continue to make a number of points that I am sure the noble Baroness will b...
Baroness Walmsley | 718 c1590 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister admit that, if she had not caved in to the Conservatives, there would have been a ...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 718 c1590 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I appreciate that the hour is late and that a number of passionate, well informed and eloq...
Baroness Butler-Sloss | 718 c1590 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, after 44 minutes on this subject, it is absolutely obvious that this is not a matter for w...
Lord Lucas | 718 c1589-90 (Link to this contribution) Yes, but if you do it in that way you fossilise a concept of PSHE in legislation which is 20 years o...
Baroness Gould of Potternewton | 718 c1589 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may disagree with the noble Baroness. In making such provision statutory, you provide a fr...
Baroness O'Loan | 718 c1589 (Link to this contribution) Thank you. I am aware that there are surveys of that nature. I am also aware that there are other su...
Baroness Massey of Darwen | 718 c1589 (Link to this contribution) Is the noble Baroness aware that there are many surveys in which young people state quite firmly tha...
Baroness O'Loan | 718 c1588 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, statutory does not necessarily equal excellent when it comes to teaching. Many areas of th...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 718 c1607-8 (Link to this contribution) 42: Clause 45, page 37, line 14, leave out "sections 1 and" and insert "section" 43: Clause 45, pa...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 718 c1607 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, these merely technical and tidying amendments are to ensure that other changes agreed by t...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 718 c1608 (Link to this contribution) 44: Schedule 4, page 49, line 33, leave out paragraphs 2 to 4 45: Schedule 4, page 50, line 7, lea...
Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 718 c1603 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as the person who had the honour and the responsibility of bringing the Children Bill 1989...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 718 c1603 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall first respond to the specific question asked by the noble and learned Baroness, La...
Earl of Onslow | 718 c1603 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, some 20 years ago, Lord Whitelaw was sitting where the noble Baroness, Lady Royall, is sit...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 718 c1604-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it will be possible for the review to look at those provisions and to review, as the noble...
Baroness Butler-Sloss | 718 c1603 (Link to this contribution) Forgive me for interrupting. The problem is that the experts will not raise their heads above the pa...
Earl of Listowel | 718 c1601-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my name is attached to that of the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, in opposing the clause. ...
Baroness Walmsley | 718 c1599-601 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in this group I seek to oppose the questions that Clauses 32 to 42 should stand part of th...
Baroness Walmsley | 718 c1599 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for her assurance that should her Government by any chance be re-elected on 6 M...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 718 c1598-9 (Link to this contribution) I thought that we took it in turns to speak and that we speak only when one of us is standing, and I...
Baroness Butler-Sloss | 718 c1602-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest as a former president of the Family Division, so I have some experie...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 718 c1598 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the noble Baroness for laughing.
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 718 c1598 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept that. It would be a big mistake. This House is always very concerned about rushed le...
Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 718 c1598 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has indicated that there was a recommendation that legislation be brought forward at th...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 718 c1598 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in many ways I agree with my noble friend. I want to be clear that the Government do not c...
Baroness Walmsley | 718 c1605 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister has stuck valiantly to her brief, but when the House hears such serious warni...
Baroness Walmsley | 718 c1576-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this Bill is a complete car crash. Hardly anything remains of the old banger in one piece....
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 718 c1603 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I want to support the eloquent speech of the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, who has fought...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 718 c1575 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, at Second Reading, many noble Lords will remember that we celebrated the successes of this...
Subjects
Access Children Disclosure of information Devolved matters Discipline Corporal punishment Licensing Family courts National Assembly for Wales Pupils Newspaper press Media Parental responsibility Personal, social, health and economic education Standards Schools Teachers Young offenders Safety Wales
Legislation
Children, Schools and Families Bill 2009-10
Link
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