Childcare Bill. Lords Report stage. Concluded. Bill printed as amended. (HL Bill 123).
Childcare Bill
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Thursday, 9 March 2006
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Baroness Walmsley | 683 c35-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, my amendments in this group are Amendments No. 10, which relates to workless households, a...
Earl of Listowel | 683 c37-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, before speaking to Amendments Nos. 31 and 32 in my name, I express my shared concerns abou...
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Lord Northbourne | 683 c38-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, will the funding by and to local authorities be on a sufficiently long-term basis to attra...
Baroness Howarth of Breckland | 683 c39 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I support my noble friend on Amendments Nos. 31 and 32 to Clause 43. I simply want to ask ...
Baroness Morris of Bolton | 683 c34 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for contributing to a very useful debate. I am sorry that I did no...
Baroness Morris of Bolton | 683 c34-5 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 8:"Page 4, line 8, after ““of”” insert ““good quality, accessible and affordable...
Lord Adonis | 683 c39-43 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, noble Lords have been concerned that the duty in Clause 6 could somehow lead to a dilution...
Baroness Morris of Bolton | 683 c43-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we have had another interesting debate on quality, although not as long as an earlier one....
Baroness Morris of Bolton | 683 c44-5 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 9:"Page 4, line 8, after ““sufficient”” insert ““and is likely to remain suffici...
Baroness Walmsley | 683 c45-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I come at this from the point of view of the child. Every time a setting closes, a child i...
Baroness Walmsley | 683 c25-7 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 6:"Page 3, line 10, at end insert—"
““(d) young children””
The noble Baroness...
Lord Adonis | 683 c28-30 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we had an excellent debate on this issue in Grand Committee when I said that we were extre...
Baroness Walmsley | 683 c30 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply. In responding, perhaps I may first assure the noble Ba...
Baroness Howarth of Breckland | 683 c27 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I hope the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, when she quoted me was not suggesting that I do ...
Baroness Morris of Bolton | 683 c27-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, has made a very strong case in support of the voice of ...
Baroness Howarth of Breckland | 683 c32 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I have spent a lifetime trying to deliver services in the statutory and voluntary sectors....
Lord Northbourne | 683 c32 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I support what the noble Baroness said.
Baroness Morris of Bolton | 683 c30-1 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 7:"Page 4, line 7, at beginning insert ““Where local financial resources permit,...
Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 683 c31-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we on these Benches have considerable sympathy with the argument of the noble Baroness, La...
Lord Adonis | 683 c32-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we accept, as King Lear told us a long time ago that,"““nothing will come of nothing””,"
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Baroness Morris of Bolton | 683 c14-7 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 1:"Page 1, line 7, leave out ““reduce inequalities between”” and insert ““show h...
Baroness Walmsley | 683 c17-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Morris, for picking up my point about the shift in rhetor...
Lord Northbourne | 683 c18 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I support Amendments Nos. 1 and 4. The case has been well made on Amendment No. 4—targets ...
Lord Adonis | 683 c18-23 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, perhaps the best way of beginning one’s remarks in your Lordships’ House is to eat humble ...
Lord Northbourne | 683 c23-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, before the noble Lord sits down, perhaps I may return to his discussion of the word ““equa...
Lord Adonis | 683 c24 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I understand the point that the noble Lord is making. However, in Grand Committee—indeed, ...
Lord Northbourne | 683 c24 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is not a question of emphasis. Can we have a form of wording that is accurate and descr...
Lord Adonis | 683 c24 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I think that the wording is accurate. I do not think that there is a problem of inaccuracy...
Baroness Crawley | 683 c24 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, with respect, I remind noble Lords that we are on Report.
Baroness Morris of Bolton | 683 c24-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his full reply and for eating humble pie; I hope it did not taste...
Baroness Walmsley | 683 c68-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too, support the amendment. The word ““taught”” indicates to some a didactic practice t...
Lord Adonis | 683 c69-71 (Link to this contribution)
: My Lords, I thought the significant part of what the noble Baroness has just said is that, althoug...
Baroness Morris of Bolton | 683 c68 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, anyone who listened to ““The Learning Curve”” on Radio 4 in the past two weeks will have b...
Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 683 c74-5 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 33:"Page 23, leave out line 11."
The noble Baroness said: My Lords, we come to ...
Baroness Morris of Bolton | 683 c75 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the issues raised by the noble Baroness, Lady Sharp of Guildford, are of great concern to ...
Baroness Howarth of Breckland | 683 c71 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the noble Baronesses who have taken part in this short debate. What has really sta...
Lord Falconer of Thoroton | 683 c73-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I have to inform the House that in the first Division today the numbers voting Content wer...
Baroness Morris of Bolton | 683 c77-80 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 36:"Page 51, line 25, at end insert—"
““( ) No information collected under...
Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 683 c76-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his positive response, particularly in relation to Amend...
Lord Adonis | 683 c75-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Sharp, has raised important issues and I am glad again to put it ...
Baroness Walmsley | 683 c80-1 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, if the Government thought that by putting these provisions right at the end of the Bill th...
Lord Adonis | 683 c81-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I cannot undertake to answer all the noble Baroness’s questions now, not least because I w...
Baroness Morris of Bolton | 683 c84-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response and look forward to receiving answers to all my deta...
Baroness Crawley | 683 c85-6 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 39:"Page 60, line 2, at end insert—"
A1 In Schedule 1 to the Local Authority ...
Baroness Howarth of Breckland | 683 c86 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I must say how relieved some of us are that the adoption points have been picked up. I tha...
Baroness Morris of Bolton | 683 c86 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too, thank the Minister for her introduction to the amendments. I am happy that they ar...
Baroness Crawley | 683 c86 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendments Nos. 40 to 42:"Page 70, line 12, column 2 at beginning insert—"
Baroness Crawley | 683 c86 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 43:
"Page 56, line 2, leave out subsection (1) and insert—"
““(1) The followi...