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Academies Bill [Lords]

Debate on bills and Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Monday, 26 July 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Nick Gibb. The answering member was Ed Balls.
Academies Bill (HL). Committee stage third day. Clause 3, discussed with new clause 1, agreed to. Clause 4, discussed with new clause 7, agreed to. Clauses 5, 16 to 19 agreed to. Clause 20 agreed to as amended. New clause 7 negatived on division (223 votes to 315). Bill reported as amended. Third reading debate agreed to on division (317 votes to 225). Bill passed, with an amendment. Clause 3: Application for Academy Order New clause 1: Reversion of Academies to maintained status Clause 4: Academy Orders New clause 7: Social cohesion Clause 16: Pre-commencement applications etc. Clause 20: Short title

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

514 c742-833 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Education

Legislative stage

Committee stage, Third reading and Report stage

Procedure

New clauses

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Academies Bill (HL). Brought from the Lords. Explanatory Notes Bill 57-EN also published.
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Julian Smith | 514 c757, (corrigendum) 980;514 c757 (Link to this contribution) Proposed clause 5(1)(c) in amendment 4 lists the pupils. Would the hon. Lady not agree that consulti...
Speaker | 514 c825 (Link to this contribution) Order. Let me gently say to the shadow Secretary of State—this is a point often not fully comprehend...

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Ed Balls | 514 c825-6 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes his jokes, but as Secretary of State he is, in my view, presiding ove...
Glenda Jackson | 514 c827 (Link to this contribution) I was interested to hear the contribution of the hon. Member for Croydon Central (Gavin Barwell). He...
Lord Barwell | 514 c826-7 (Link to this contribution) I spoke in the Second Reading debate and sat through most of the Committee stage because one of the ...
Bob Russell | 514 c828 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that it is disappointing that the Minister was not able to say whether par...
Dan Rogerson | 514 c828 (Link to this contribution) I extend my thanks to all hon. Members who participated in the debate, to the Minister, who has done...
Andrew Percy | 514 c828-9 (Link to this contribution) I was not planning to speak on Third Reading, but I want to respond to a couple of points made by th...
Dan Rogerson | 514 c828 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made his point to the Minister and the House as is his wont. The progress that o...
Ed Balls | 514 c825 (Link to this contribution) It would have been better if the Secretary of State had contributed to this debate, given that it wa...
Ed Balls | 514 c824 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman looks at the facts over the past decade, he will see that of the 20 local auth...
Speaker | 514 c824 (Link to this contribution) Order. Let me say that we have 15 minutes left to complete our consideration of Third Reading. We do...
Ed Balls | 514 c824 (Link to this contribution) The fact is that our academies were disproportionately set up in disadvantaged communities. They dis...
Nick Gibb | 514 c824 (Link to this contribution) But why is the legacy of the right hon. Gentleman's Government the fact that outstanding schools are...
Ed Balls | 514 c823-4 (Link to this contribution) The only similarity between our policy on academies and the new policy on academies is that the Secr...
Lord Barwell | 514 c824 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has just said that the academies that the previous Government set up were i...
Ed Balls | 514 c823 (Link to this contribution) I am not running free, or even scared. I support new schools where we need new schools, but I have b...
Mike Hancock | 514 c823 (Link to this contribution) Like the shadow Education Secretary, I think that this Bill is a threat to comprehensive education. ...
Chris Skidmore | 514 c823 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is right that it is standards, not structures that are important, so I find...
Chris Skidmore | 514 c822 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman mentioned that he is proud of bringing up a new generation of teachers. The...
Ed Balls | 514 c822-3 (Link to this contribution) The most important issue is standards, not structures, and the Bill is all about structural change t...
Nick Gibb | 514 c819-20 (Link to this contribution) We have had an interesting week of debates on the Bill, and I thank all hon. Members who took part, ...
Bob Russell | 514 c820 (Link to this contribution) Will the two parent governors be elected by other parents or appointed?
Nick Gibb | 514 c820-1 (Link to this contribution) My understanding is that they will be elected, but if I am proved wrong I will write to my hon. Frie...
Ed Balls | 514 c821-2 (Link to this contribution) It is customary to commence a Third Reading debate with congratulations to hon. Members of all parti...
Nick Gibb | 514 c809-10 (Link to this contribution) Sorry, the shadow Minister. It is all very new. The problem with the shadow Minister's speech in mo...
Iain Wright | 514 c810 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the Minister on the subject of the concession that he has made on social cohesion and...
Dan Rogerson | 514 c807 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point. He has intervened on both the hon. Member for Hartlepool (...
Nick Gibb | 514 c807-8 (Link to this contribution) Amendment 79 would require the Secretary of State to consult all those listed in the amendment befor...
Dan Rogerson | 514 c806-7 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman's point, and I am sure the Minister will want to respond to it in re...
Andrew George | 514 c807 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has said that his concerns have been allayed. He will have heard my intervention on t...
Iain Wright | 514 c809 (Link to this contribution) I may be pre-empting what the Minister is going to say. He has been talking about existing maintaine...
Nick Gibb | 514 c809 (Link to this contribution) I shall seek to do that during the rest of my speech. If I do not get round to the hon. Gentleman's ...
Andrew George | 514 c808 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will have heard my two interventions about the availability of an appeals process where...
Nick Gibb | 514 c808-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will know that the admissions code will apply just as much to academies as to maintai...
Lord Coaker | 514 c806 (Link to this contribution) Let me explain why we consider new clause 7 so important. Subsection (1)(c) refers to"““social cohes...
Nick Gibb | 514 c800-2 (Link to this contribution) Amendment 54 seeks to ensure that each academy order contains provisions that make the school's faci...
Jon Trickett | 514 c802 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for the way in which he has presented his case to the Committee, and I...
Iain Wright | 514 c802 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 79, page 4, line 8, at end add—
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 514 c802 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss new clause 7- Social cohesion- (1) Before a school makes...
Iain Wright | 514 c803-4 (Link to this contribution) With this amendment and new clause 7, we return to a subject that we have discussed time and again i...
Ian Swales | 514 c804 (Link to this contribution) What did the hon. Gentleman think about the provisions under discussion when the Labour Government i...
Iain Wright | 514 c804 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to return to the Second Reading debate, but the purpose and definition of academies un...
Andrew George | 514 c804-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a strong case, referring to Liberal Democrat party policy. In new clause 7(...
Dan Rogerson | 514 c805-6 (Link to this contribution) How could I resist the opportunity to respond to the hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr Wright), who has...
Iain Wright | 514 c805 (Link to this contribution) In my constituency, parents want to get their children into certain popular schools. It is important...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 514 c779 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister clarify that, by and large, these proceedings and procedures have worked very well...
Nick Gibb | 514 c779 (Link to this contribution) Yes, my hon. Friend makes a very good point. The type of people who become school governors are moti...
Nick Gibb | 514 c778-9 (Link to this contribution) I think I have taken the hon. Lady's point. Requiring a ballot of all parents of pupils at the schoo...
Nick Gibb | 514 c780 (Link to this contribution) It is possible for an academy order to be issued in September, while the details of the funding agre...
John Leech | 514 c780 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister. I seek some clarification of the provision he cited, which makes reference to ...
Nick Gibb | 514 c779 (Link to this contribution) I give way to my hon. Friend first and then to the hon. Gentleman.
Ian Mearns | 514 c780 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for Gedling (Vernon Coaker) pursued this issue earlier, when he spoke abou...
Nick Gibb | 514 c780 (Link to this contribution) Of course, and it is up to the school to decide. I was going to come on to the guidance later. It is...
Nick Gibb | 514 c793-4 (Link to this contribution) The criteria will be different because the fast-tracking is confined to schools that are graded outs...
Lord Coaker | 514 c794-5 (Link to this contribution) It is a very good job that the Minister has persuaded me that statutory instruments of any sort—nega...
Jon Trickett | 514 c795-7 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 54, in page 3, line 34, at end insert—
Mike Hancock | 514 c797-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hoyle. This is the first time that I have had ...
Mike Hancock | 514 c798 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I was a bit thrown by that. I do not know if there was a domestic going on—
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 514 c798 (Link to this contribution) Order. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman could stick to the amendment.
Dan Rogerson | 514 c799-800 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to you, Mr Hoyle, and to the Committee for not being here for the start of the debate on...
Mike Hancock | 514 c798 (Link to this contribution) The amendment is very important because it places pressure on the Minister to spell out exactly what...
Iain Wright | 514 c800 (Link to this contribution) May I begin by saying what a pleasure it is to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hoyle? I will be b...
Iain Wright | 514 c780 (Link to this contribution) We really need clarity on this very important point. As I mentioned earlier, paragraph 7 of the expl...
Nick Gibb | 514 c780 (Link to this contribution) The school can continue with an academy order made. That is the point. The academy order can be made...
John Pugh | 514 c783-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall say a few words before putting amendment 8 to the vote. Ministers have been fairly quiet thr...
Lord Coaker | 514 c792 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 82, page 3, line 11, at end insert—
Sammy Wilson | 514 c780-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way and for his further clarification of the purpose and usefulness ...
Nick Gibb | 514 c781-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention, as it enables me to repeat that the deal is not done until the ...
Mike Hancock | 514 c793 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend anticipate the criteria being changed from those that are currently applied to t...
Nick Gibb | 514 c792-3 (Link to this contribution) The amendments would collectively have the effect of increasing the burden of regulation associated ...
Lord Coaker | 514 c792 (Link to this contribution) I will be interested to hear why the Minister thinks that the amendments are unacceptable. Before th...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 514 c792 (Link to this contribution) With this we may take the following: amendment 81, in clause 4, page 3, line 34, at end insert- '(3...
Andrew Percy | 514 c776 (Link to this contribution) I think I heard the hon. Gentleman correctly and that he was saying that the Opposition are arguing ...
Bill Esterson | 514 c776 (Link to this contribution) Consultation is not a referendum; it will not necessarily produce the answer that the majority are p...
Andrew Percy | 514 c776 (Link to this contribution) I am failing to get my head round the arguments of Opposition Members. There was plenty of consultat...
Nick Gibb | 514 c778 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to do so. We shall be coming to the relevant clause later in the debate, but I have been ...
Dan Rogerson | 514 c778 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is setting out his vision for the Bill and talking about the role of governing bodies. ...
Nick Gibb | 514 c777-8 (Link to this contribution) This group of amendments deals with consultation. We have always made it clear that we expect school...
Bill Esterson | 514 c777 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is trying to put words into the mouths of many Members. I think he is talking a l...
Caroline Lucas | 514 c778 (Link to this contribution) At the risk of being churlish, why is the democracy such an issue? The point was made that if you we...
Nick Gibb | 514 c778 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the shadow Minister for that remark. He clearly takes the issue very seriously and ...
Lord Coaker | 514 c778 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the concession the Minister just made. The Committee has run very well without being churl...
Dan Rogerson | 514 c755 (Link to this contribution) I should like to make a little progress, after which I will happily give way to the hon. Gentleman, ...
Mike Hancock | 514 c755 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my hon. Friend does not find my intervention unhelpful, although he might—[Laughter.] Do...
Dan Rogerson | 514 c754 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made that point on a number of occasions—this afternoon and previously—but th...
Sammy Wilson | 514 c754 (Link to this contribution) I take the point that the hon. Gentleman and others have made on the importance of consulting parent...
Sammy Wilson | 514 c755 (Link to this contribution) Whether the threshold of one governor or 10% of parents is used to trigger a ballot, does the hon. G...
Dan Rogerson | 514 c755 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right that amendment 8 sets out such a procedure, but the question is whether we s...
John Pugh | 514 c755 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to accuse the hon. Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson) of complete nonsense, but the...
Bill Esterson | 514 c757 (Link to this contribution) There are many professionals with good experience of how to consult effectively with children. Exact...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 514 c758 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a valid point, which demonstrates the lack of seriousness among the Government ...
John Pugh | 514 c756 (Link to this contribution) Does it not follow that trying to get academy status by September must be nonsense? Can my hon. Frie...
Dan Rogerson | 514 c756 (Link to this contribution) We are moving into uncharted territory with the suggestion of motions of no confidence in head teach...
John Redwood | 514 c756 (Link to this contribution) If there were a good head teacher in a good school who recommended a transition to academy status, a...
Dan Rogerson | 514 c756 (Link to this contribution) Against my hon. Friend's possible intention, that was a helpful intervention as it gives me the oppo...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 514 c757 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point. I have some experience of consulting on an academy—al...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 514 c757 (Link to this contribution) I would like to speak to amendment 4, and to support amendment 78, on the process of consultation, a...
Dan Rogerson | 514 c756-7 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that my hon. Friend has posed a problem not for me, but for the Minister to answer when he...
Sammy Wilson | 514 c760 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not agree that any school that wants a long-term future and wants to attract...
Edward Timpson | 514 c758 (Link to this contribution) When talking about consultation in the education of children, does the hon. Lady recall that the pre...
Lisa Nandy | 514 c759 (Link to this contribution) I take the hon. Gentleman's point about Members not taking governors' commitment seriously. I want t...
Andrew Percy | 514 c760 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that the hon. Lady and I will have to agree to differ on this point, otherwise we will end...
Lisa Nandy | 514 c760 (Link to this contribution) I accept that most schools see their role as being at the heart of their community, and I am gratefu...
Nick Gibb | 514 c758-9 (Link to this contribution) Did the hon. Lady not hear the answer given my hon. Friend the Member for North Cornwall (Dan Rogers...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 514 c758 (Link to this contribution) I am quite sure that the previous Government were setting precise and specific standards for home ed...
Andrew Percy | 514 c759 (Link to this contribution) I should like to speak to amendments 8 and 9 and new clause 1. I shall possibly touch on amendment 4...
David Ward | 514 c760 (Link to this contribution) There seems to be a view that a particular school serves a community, but in many areas the reality ...
Andrew Percy | 514 c760 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes that point better than I could. That is precisely why I am making the point tod...
Dan Rogerson | 514 c762 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman that such mechanisms are important, but would he be satisfied with t...
Andrew Percy | 514 c762 (Link to this contribution) As someone who has been a teacher, I hope that governing bodies will have a way not only to move in ...
Caroline Lucas | 514 c761-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's points underline the fact that we do not have time to discuss the amendments pr...
Andrew Percy | 514 c761 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that the hon. Gentleman has come round to the idea of having a 55% rule in certain circ...
Andrew Percy | 514 c761 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will probably be disappointed, as I was about to move on to that point. Labour Me...
Ian Mearns | 514 c761 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a cogent argument for the retention and strengthening of the strategic role...
Andrew Percy | 514 c760-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes the point that I was going to make about amendment 8, which limits consulta...
Lisa Nandy | 514 c763 (Link to this contribution) That brings me to a point that was raised with me by the TUC. The Government's concept of the big so...
Andrew Percy | 514 c763 (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Lady care to comment on the previous Government's conversion of schools to academies,...
Lisa Nandy | 514 c763-4 (Link to this contribution) I believe that we can always do better when it comes to consultation, but I also believe that the st...
Mike Hancock | 514 c764-5 (Link to this contribution) You will be pleased to know, Ms Primarolo, that I spent most of the weekend trying to pronounce your...
Mike Hancock | 514 c765 (Link to this contribution) I see that the hon. Gentleman is itching to intervene. At our age, I think I should allow him to do ...
Barry Sheerman | 514 c765 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is more deeply rooted in his community and his constituency than almost anyone I ...
Andrew Percy | 514 c762 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has, I hope, allayed some of the fears of the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Car...
Lisa Nandy | 514 c762-3 (Link to this contribution) I want to speak particularly to my amendment 86, which is a probing amendment designed to understand...
Barry Sheerman | 514 c763 (Link to this contribution) Does it not strike my hon. Friend as odd that, while the Government are proposing to allow local com...
Lord Coaker | 514 c769 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that the Minister is just asserting things; there is no fact in what he just said. How m...
Mike Hancock | 514 c769 (Link to this contribution) In view of what the Minister has just said, is the hon. Gentleman not slightly mystified, as I am, w...
Lord Coaker | 514 c768 (Link to this contribution) I agree with that. The point that we have made on numerous occasions is that even if the Government ...
Nick Gibb | 514 c769 (Link to this contribution) May I help the hon. Gentleman by saying that schools that do wish to convert this September must hav...
Lord Coaker | 514 c769-70 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. The point that the Minister missed was that the Secretary of State has made great play o...
John Redwood | 514 c770 (Link to this contribution) Can the shadow Minister explain why he thinks so many head teachers and governing bodies might want ...
Lord Coaker | 514 c767-8 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for calling me to speak, Ms Primarolo. It has been an interesting debate so far and, clear...
Pat Glass | 514 c768 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether my hon. Friend agrees with me about what is happening in a school that is outside b...
Mike Hancock | 514 c765-7 (Link to this contribution) I agree. As I said in my intervention on my hon. Friend the Member for Southport, it is not just abo...
David Ward | 514 c771 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman is as concerned as I am about the proposals on consulting parent...
Lord Coaker | 514 c771 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right about that. Of course what Lord Hill said in another place wa...
Sammy Wilson | 514 c771-2 (Link to this contribution) The shadow Minister is making a point about the form of the consultation. In fact, if he examines th...
John Redwood | 514 c770 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that we will all be interested in that answer. However, the shadow Minister has given me n...
Lord Coaker | 514 c770 (Link to this contribution) But who will decide? It will be the head teacher and the governing body of the school. The right hon...
Lord Coaker | 514 c771 (Link to this contribution) I make a prediction to the right hon. Gentleman and to some of the hon. Members on the Government Be...
Lord Coaker | 514 c770 (Link to this contribution) What we are saying is that we are legislating for a process and we expect it to set out exactly what...
Dan Rogerson | 514 c776 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman confirm that the situation he describes happened under legislation that was ...
Bill Esterson | 514 c776 (Link to this contribution) I confirm that it happened under the legislation—that was why the checks and balances were eventuall...
Lord Coaker | 514 c775 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a self-evident and good point, and identifies some of the problems regarding th...
Bill Esterson | 514 c775-6 (Link to this contribution) I want to talk about consultation in relation to my experience as an opposition spokesman for childr...
Lord Coaker | 514 c774-5 (Link to this contribution) Some local authorities have been a problem, but not just Labour authorities—Conservative local autho...
Bill Esterson | 514 c775 (Link to this contribution) May I take my hon. Friend back to the primary capital programme and the democracy in that process, w...
Lord Coaker | 514 c774 (Link to this contribution) I was going to make that point: schools adjudicators have been involved almost as a final route of a...
Julian Smith | 514 c774 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister accept that there have been examples of Labour-held local authorities being given ...
Lord Coaker | 514 c773-4 (Link to this contribution) There are two points. I shall come back to the local point in the moment, but all the way through th...
Ian Mearns | 514 c774 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept that under the previous Government's academy proposals, the local consult...
John Redwood | 514 c751 (Link to this contribution) If an entirely new school is being set up, it is up to the people putting forward that proposition t...
John Pugh | 514 c752 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is sketching out various alternatives to a more democratic arrangement. I u...
John Redwood | 514 c752 (Link to this contribution) It cannot be done on that short a time scale—these things will take a bit of time to go through. As ...
Iain Wright | 514 c752 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is being most generous in giving way. May I point him to paragraph 7 of the...
John Redwood | 514 c752 (Link to this contribution) I think hon. Members are making obstacles where none need occur. Changes will go speedily only if th...
Alex Cunningham | 514 c752-3 (Link to this contribution) I, too, would like to consider the serious lack of consultation required before establishing an acad...
Alex Cunningham | 514 c753 (Link to this contribution) That is straightforward. Parents have always made good decisions when electing parent governors, but...
John Redwood | 514 c753 (Link to this contribution) Why does the hon. Gentleman think that there will be so many schools with governing bodies and head ...
Lord Coaker | 514 c754 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a perfectly reasonable point, but the problem is that we cannot amend the B...
Dan Rogerson | 514 c753-4 (Link to this contribution) I welcome you back to the Chair on the third day of our Committee proceedings, Ms Primarolo. My hon...
Mike Hancock | 514 c751 (Link to this contribution) I understand and accept entirely the right hon. Gentleman's point about the checks and balances bein...
John Redwood | 514 c751 (Link to this contribution) That may well be the case generally, but not in this situation. Changing to an academy is a one-off ...
Pat Glass | 514 c751 (Link to this contribution) The evidence suggests that it takes seven years for a school to gain or lose a reputation, so it is ...
John Redwood | 514 c750-1 (Link to this contribution) I have said that I love democracy, and it is often a good idea to give more people more votes. Howev...
Bill Esterson | 514 c750 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman's point about trust is unfortunate, to say the least. Governing bodies do n...
John Redwood | 514 c750 (Link to this contribution) The main mechanism by which academies could take more of the money would be by their being extremely...
Caroline Lucas | 514 c750 (Link to this contribution) To clarify my point, I am talking about the fact that these schools will drain resources away from o...
John Redwood | 514 c749-50 (Link to this contribution) That is a completely different argument from the one that the hon. Lady made in her speech, in which...
Caroline Lucas | 514 c749 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that, if one gives academies the right to choose their own curriculum and opt out...
John Redwood | 514 c749 (Link to this contribution) It was a pleasure to hear the hon. Member for Southport (Dr Pugh) looking back with such fond nostal...
Andrew Percy | 514 c744 (Link to this contribution) Presumably, the reason is that a change from grammar school to non-grammar school involves a change ...
John Pugh | 514 c743-4 (Link to this contribution) When were elected this May—God, it seems years ago—we all knew that there was some prospect that pol...
Chair of Committees of the Whole House | 514 c742-3 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Amendment 78, page 3, line 11, at end inse...
Lord Coaker | 514 c748 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Lady's amendment puts forward a good point. However, does not the intervention...
Caroline Lucas | 514 c747 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful that the hon. Gentleman takes the amendment sufficiently seriously to want to know suc...
Caroline Lucas | 514 c748-9 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for coming to the rescue. That was an exceedingly good poin...
John Pugh | 514 c744 (Link to this contribution) That was very quick off the mark. I anticipated that point being made, but a change in governance is...
John Pugh | 514 c744-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend suggests a cynical intention on the part of Ministers and I hesitate to endorse that....
Mike Hancock | 514 c744 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend accept the suggestion that there are to be no ballots because most of them might...
Mike Hancock | 514 c745 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that if the possibility of a ballot taking place arose, it should not be j...
Edward Timpson | 514 c747 (Link to this contribution) On the practical aspects of the amendment, as opposed to the principle that she has already articula...
Caroline Lucas | 514 c746-7 (Link to this contribution) I want to speak to new clause 1, on the reversion of academies to maintained status, and amendment 4...
Ed Balls | 514 c823 (Link to this contribution) I will take a second intervention from the hon. Gentleman, but I hope that it is better than the fir...
Dan Rogerson | 514 c754-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman made that point in an earlier debate on another group of amendments. He is absolu...
Dan Rogerson | 514 c755 (Link to this contribution) As a seasoned political campaigner, the hon. Gentleman is well aware of the possibilities that are o...
Andrew Percy | 514 c760 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. Amendment 8 does not mention the wider community; it sim...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 514 c759 (Link to this contribution) I did hear that answer, but many of us fear that, at that point, the process will already have gone ...
Andrew Percy | 514 c773 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the shadow Minister that there should always be a way back, but I fail to understand th...
Lord Coaker | 514 c772-3 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that it is sufficient. The hon. Gentleman is right: of course one would consult teach...
John Redwood | 514 c770 (Link to this contribution) Sometimes things are so obvious that when one trusts people they will do the obvious thing. Of cours...
John Pugh | 514 c742 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 8, page 3, line 11, at end insert—
John Pugh | 514 c745-6 (Link to this contribution) I am arguing simply that we should be at least as permissive as Baroness Thatcher was in 1988. My ho...
Ed Balls | 514 c825 (Link to this contribution) In that case, Mr Speaker, I will make no reference to the fact that a requirement that the admission...

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Finance
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Education
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Parents
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Pupils
Primary education
Standards
Teachers
Secondary education
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Legislation

Academies Bill (HL) 2010-12

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