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Debate on bill on Wednesday, 26 October 2011, in the House of Lords.

Education Bill

Education Bill. Lords report stage third day.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
731 c757-831 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for Education
Legislative stage
Report stage
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Related items
Education Bill. As amended in Grand Committee.
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Bills
House of Lords
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Massey of Darwen | 731 c825 (Link to this contribution) Could I make two comments? First, would the noble Baroness agree with me that school governors have ...
Baroness O'Cathain | 731 c825 (Link to this contribution) I am very glad that the noble Baroness has said that. On the first point, I know quite a few school ...
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Lord Clarke of Hampstead | 731 c825-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that, at this late hour, the Government will firmly reject this amendment. I have n...
Lord Lingfield | 731 c826 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, all of us sympathise with the noble Baroness, Lady Massey, regarding the appalling letters...
Baroness Northover | 731 c827 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I remind noble Lords that we are now on Report. We should not be exploring in enormous det...
Baroness Crawley | 731 c827-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise in support of my noble friends in their amendment and acknowledge their tenacity in...
Lord Hill of Oareford | 731 c829-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I start by welcoming the noble Baroness, Lady Crawley, from the substitutes’ bench. As I a...
Baroness Massey of Darwen | 731 c830-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for those words. As ever, he is sensible, courteous, wise and thoroug...
Baroness Garden of Frognal | 731 c831 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that further consideration on Report be now adjourned for the day. The usual...
Lord Elton | 731 c827 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may distil what my noble friend has just said with the Latin phrase—““expressio unius est ...
Baroness O'Cathain | 731 c823-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I wish to speak against the amendment for two reasons. First, I am concerned that, as has ...
Baroness O'Cathain | 731 c824-5 (Link to this contribution) Please let me finish my argument. How can they know what view a particular inspector will take? The ...
Baroness Gould of Potternewton | 731 c817-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my name is on the amendment if your Lordships would do me the courtesy of letting me speak...
Lord Hylton | 731 c819 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, after four speeches in favour of Amendment 80, the amendment still appears both overprescr...
Lord Layard | 731 c818-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is a most important amendment because when surveys are done asking parents what they ...
Lord Eden of Winton | 731 c821-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the speech by the noble Baroness in moving the amendment gave much reassurance to many in ...
Bishop of Ripon and Leeds | 731 c819-21 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I speak with a certain degree of trepidation, not least because in one of the briefings th...
Baroness Howarth of Breckland | 731 c822-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I want to engage in a discussion about the actual amendment and the issues that the noble ...
Lord Hill of Oareford | 731 c822 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it may be for the convenience of the House to be clear—since I know that many noble Lords ...
Lord Hill of Oareford | 731 c757-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, after our discussions about admissions on Monday, I move to a number of government amendme...
Lord Hill of Oareford | 731 c757 (Link to this contribution) 64: Clause 34, page 33, line 33, at end insert— ““( ) In section 88I (other functions of adjudicator...
Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 731 c758-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for responding to my letter about these amendments and for t...
Lord Hill of Oareford | 731 c759 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it remains our intention to bring the new codes into force from February 2012. While there...
Lord Alton of Liverpool | 731 c759 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the point that the noble Lord, Lord Touhig, has made. I know that great concern ...
Lord Hill of Oareford | 731 c759-60 (Link to this contribution) I understand the point. Let me check where we have got to on the draft regulations and come back to ...
Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 731 c759 (Link to this contribution) Is it possible to see those draft regulations before Third Reading so that that issue is clarified b...
Lord Hill of Oareford | 731 c760 (Link to this contribution) 65: Clause 34, page 33, line 38, leave out sub-paragraph (i) 66: Clause 34, page 34, line 1, leave...
Lord Avebury | 731 c763-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, somewhat incongruously, my proposed new clause, which follows the amendment moved by the n...
Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 731 c761-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Clause 36 introduces a new presumption that every new school in the future will be an acad...
Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 731 c761 (Link to this contribution) 70A: Clause 36, page 34, leave out line 20 and insert— ““(1) Where a new school is to be established...
Lord Avebury | 731 c767 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Lord for his kind remarks about his aspiration when he cam...
Lord Alton of Liverpool | 731 c766-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that the Minister, when he comes to reply to the amendments in the name of the nobl...
Baroness Massey of Darwen | 731 c765-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 71, 72 and 73. First, I thank the Minister for his conscientio...
Baroness Walmsley | 731 c764-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have tabled Amendment 70C in this group, which would remove subsections (3) and (4) of n...
Bishop of Ripon and Leeds | 731 c767-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I want to follow the comments of the noble Lord, Lord Alton, about the advantage of leavin...
Lord Alton of Liverpool | 731 c767 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was responding to the two speeches that went before and, of course, the amendments in th...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 731 c769 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise to speak primarily to Amendment 70A, which was moved by my noble friend Lady Hughes...
Lord Touhig | 731 c769 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will not detain the House for long. I was going to say a few words about the amendment o...
Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 731 c772-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response and noble Lords for their contributions to this deba...
Lord Hill of Oareford | 731 c769-72 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, at the heart of the Government’s proposals and this debate is the question of how we obtai...
Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 731 c782 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the affirmative resolution procedure introduced by Amendment 74, which will mean...
Lord Hill of Oareford | 731 c777-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in Committee, while I think that there was a general acceptance of the idea of focusing in...
Lord Hill of Oareford | 731 c777 (Link to this contribution) 74: Clause 39, page 35, line 22, leave out ““follows”” and insert ““set out in subsections (2) to (8...
Baroness Walmsley | 731 c781 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was delighted to hear what the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan, was saying about the importa...
Baroness Morgan of Huyton | 731 c779-81 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest as the chair of Ofsted and in that context shall talk briefly about ...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 731 c784-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am moving Amendment 76, which was tabled in the name of my noble friend Lord Hunt of Kin...
Lord Hill of Oareford | 731 c783 (Link to this contribution) 75: Clause 39, page 36, line 31, at end insert— ““(9) In section 121 of EA 2005 (parliamentary contr...
Lord Hill of Oareford | 731 c783 (Link to this contribution) The reason why we are making this change and doing it now is because we are putting on a statutory b...
Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 731 c783 (Link to this contribution) Just while the Minister is on that point, would he concede my main point, which is that it is not ne...
Lord Hill of Oareford | 731 c783 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, let me respond briefly to the specific point about safeguarding raised by my noble friend ...
Baroness Hughes of Stretford | 731 c789-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I cannot improve on the contributions that we have heard from my noble friends and the nob...
Lord Lucas | 731 c788-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I add my voice to those who have already spoken. I am greatly saddened by this Government’...
Lord Quirk | 731 c788 (Link to this contribution) While the Minister is taking the deep breath that the noble Baroness, Lady Morris, has urged upon hi...
Baroness Morris of Yardley | 731 c786-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support this amendment. I shall start with what I think is going to be my only line of a...
Lord Quirk | 731 c797-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 79. Clause 40 requires the chief inspector to consider a fami...
Baroness Benjamin | 731 c796-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for the letter dated 14 October that he sent to the noble Baroness, L...
Baroness Flather | 731 c797 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall speak to my Amendment 78, which is in this group. It is a very simple amendment to...
Lord Hill of Oareford | 731 c790-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Morris of Yardley, for her career advice, which ...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 731 c791-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have had an excellent debate. I am delighted that, having had a busy day, my noble frie...
Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 731 c790 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have listened to the whole debate, particularly to the noble Baroness, Lady Morris of Ya...
Baroness D'Souza | 731 c796 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I understand that there has been agreement that Amendment 76A shall be grouped with Amendm...
Baroness Walmsley | 731 c796 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have Amendment 77 in this group. Before speaking to it, perhaps I may say how right the ...
Lord Northbourne | 731 c794 (Link to this contribution) 76A: Clause 40, page 36, line 39, at end insert— ““( ) in the case of any school taking in children ...
Lord Northbourne | 731 c795-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this relatively modest amendment contains an important principle. It is on that basis that...
Baroness Garden of Frognal | 731 c808 (Link to this contribution) I will certainly write to my noble friend.
Baroness Garden of Frognal | 731 c804-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the current reporting areas for school inspections of maintained schools and academies hav...
Lord Lucas | 731 c808 (Link to this contribution) Before my noble friend sits down, will she agree to write to me saying exactly where community cohes...
Baroness Warnock | 731 c799 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I very strongly support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Northbourne, as well as the ...
Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve | 731 c800 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I strongly endorse these thoughts. We should not set the inspectorate the task of doing th...
Lord Alton of Liverpool | 731 c800 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I intend to support my noble friend Lady Flather, but before so doing I would like to supp...
Bishop of Ripon and Leeds | 731 c801 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, first, I agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, in preferring to have well-being sp...
Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 731 c801-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, all the proposed amendments are more than worthy of acceptance, whether that is in the Bil...
Lord Elton | 731 c802-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I had hoped to speak in support of the noble Lord, Lord Northbourne, but I cannot do so be...
Baroness Jones of Whitchurch | 731 c803-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have listened carefully to the debate. We have a great deal of sympathy with those noble...
Baroness Massey of Darwen | 731 c812-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Amendment 80 refers again to inspections in schools. It follows seamlessly from the previo...
Baroness Walmsley | 731 c815-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Gould of Potternewton, and the noble Lord, Lord Layard, fo...
Baroness Flather | 731 c809 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Gardner, for her comprehensive statement, but I regret very much th...
Baroness Massey of Darwen | 731 c812 (Link to this contribution) 80: Clause 40, page 37, line 8, at end insert— ““(5C) In reporting under subsection (5), the Chief I...
Lord Northbourne | 731 c808-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if you were setting up a business to manufacture and sell bicycles and you were going to s...
Baroness Flather | 731 c809 (Link to this contribution) 78: Clause 40, page 36, line 43, at end insert— ““( ) the contribution made by the school to communi...
Lord Touhig | 731 c759 (Link to this contribution) Subsection (2)(a) of the new clause proposed by Amendment 69 broadens the range of persons who can o...
Baroness Turner of Camden | 731 c768 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise briefly to support the amendment tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Avebury. As I have ...
Lord Lucas | 731 c802 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I very much hope that my noble friend will pay attention to the speeches he has heard on A...
Lord Hill of Oareford | 731 c760-1 (Link to this contribution) 67: Schedule 10, page 85, leave out lines 9 and 10 68: Schedule 10, page 85, line 39, leave out pa...
Subjects
Bullying Children Admissions Closures Education Inspections Exemptions Faith schools Local government Pre-school education Personal, social, health and economic education Standards Religion Safety Voluntary schools Academies Office of the Schools Adjudicator Free schools Ofsted Relationships and sex education Maintained schools
Legislation
Education Bill 2010-12
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