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Education and Skills Bill

Debate on bills on Tuesday, 10 June 2008, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Adonis. The answering member was Baroness Morris of Bolton.
Education and Skills Bill. Lords Second Reading debate. Agreed to on question and committed to a Committee of the Whole House.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

702 c489-558 

Session

2007-08

Legislative stage

Second reading

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Low of Dalston | 702 c521-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin by declaring an interest, not just as chairman of RNIB but as incoming president o...
Baroness Morris of Bolton | 702 c495-500 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for his customarily clear introduction and thorough explanation of wh...

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Baroness Walmsley | 702 c500-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for setting out the Government’s intentions in bringing forward this ...
Lord Sutherland of Houndwood | 702 c503-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for his characteristically clear and cogent introduction to the Bill’...
Lord Elton | 702 c519-21 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, your Lordships will be relieved to hear that in Committee I hope to address a number of is...
Lord Layard | 702 c516-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is the Bill that many of us have wanted for decades. I suppose that, if we were old e...
Baroness Morgan of Huyton | 702 c509-12 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it does not seem long since our last education Bill but this one covers some very importan...
Bishop of St Albans | 702 c506-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, thank the Minister for his clear exposition of the Bill. I am glad to be able to c...
Lord Dearing | 702 c513-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the three Front Benches have promised us a challenging summer and autumn in their admirabl...
Lord Pilkington of Oxenford | 702 c512-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in his briefing notes, the Minister reminds us that this is a landmark piece of legislatio...
Lord Adonis | 702 c489-95 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time. The Bill legislates in five main ...
Baroness Morris of Yardley | 702 c527 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, tomorrow I shall be going to the north-east, to Sunderland university, where I do some wor...
Baroness Garden of Frognal | 702 c528-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like other noble Lords, I welcome the Bill’s commitments to extend education and training ...
Lord Pilkington of Oxenford | 702 c527 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I realise that it is not etiquette to say this, but, as a product of the north-east where ...
Lord Parekh | 702 c541-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I very much welcome the basic objectives of the Bill and many of the details, and I commen...
Earl of Listowel | 702 c538-41 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, warmly welcome this Bill. I do so in particular because I hope that its provisions...
Baroness Blackstone | 702 c535-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I want to be rather more positive about this Bill than was my noble friend Baroness Morris...
Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 702 c533-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like other noble Lords, I readily acknowledge that the logic and the timing of raising the...
Lord Lucas | 702 c530-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this Bill threatens to become the Terminal 5 of the education world: wonderful in every wa...
Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 702 c546-50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as the noble Lord, Lord Pilkington, remarked in his introduction, this is landmark legisla...
Baroness Verma | 702 c550-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, all noble Lords who have spoken today have done so eloquently. Of course we all want our y...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 702 c553-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been a truly tremendous debate. I have found it incredibly stimulating and very i...
Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 702 c557 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does the noble Baroness agree that there may be targeted support from the local authority,...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 702 c557-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Baroness highlights the point about timing that she herself made earlier. We are...
Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 702 c557 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I want only to say that at the moment there are not enough educational psychologists avail...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 702 c558 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I look forward to those discussions. This is a very important area and I do not wish to un...
Lord Elton | 702 c558 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sorry to interrupt the noble Baroness. Did she take the point that enormous savings w...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 702 c557 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for that intervention, and indeed I was about to mention the co...
Baroness Massey of Darwen | 702 c543-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I must apologise to the House for being absent during many of the speeches today because I...
Baroness Morris of Yardley | 702 c525-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join other speakers who have recognised the skill and the clarity with which my noble fr...

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