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Education Bill

Debate on bills on Wednesday, 11 May 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Nick Gibb. The answering member was Kevin Brennan.
Education Bill. Report stage debate. New clause 20, discussed with new clauses 21, 1, 13 and 19, debated and agreed to. New clause 21 agreed to. New clause 2, discussed with new clauses 10 and 22, debated and withdrawn. New clause 5, discussed with new clauses 6, 9 and 11, debated and negatived. New clause 9 negatived on division (212 votes to 304). Amendments made. Third reading debate. Agreed to on division (305 votes to 204) and Bill passed.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

527 c1187-281 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Education

Legislative stage

Third reading and Report stage

Procedure

New clauses

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Education Bill. As amended in Public Bill Committee.
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Pat Glass | 527 c1238 (11-12mc) (Link to this contribution) Local authorities have 14 days in which to comply with the decision of a special educational needs t...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1214 (Link to this contribution) The English baccalaureate is not compulsory or prescriptive. It is also not an accountability measur...

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Andy Burnham | 527 c1214 (Link to this contribution) That is utter nonsense from the Minister, who made, with his Secretary of State, great play of auton...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1214 (Link to this contribution) Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that English, maths and double science are already compulsory up t...
Andy Burnham | 527 c1213-4 (Link to this contribution) I sympathise with the Chairman of the Education Committee. I am reading into what he says the impres...
Graham Stuart | 527 c1213 (Link to this contribution) I asked the right hon. Gentleman earlier whether he would support the principle of an assessment and...
Andy Burnham | 527 c1213 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The Bill weakens the schools adjudicator and could dilute the ad...
Ian Mearns | 527 c1213 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend puts his finger on the nub of the issue—the Minister promised in Committee on 2...
Stephen Twigg | 527 c1214 (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. Friend aware that some schools, including some in my constituency, have already mov...
Andy Burnham | 527 c1214 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff West says, this is a nudge with a loaded gun. Of course sch...
Andy Burnham | 527 c1216 (Link to this contribution) We know that the measure was applied retrospectively to schools, so the Government were encouraging ...
Ian Mearns | 527 c1216 (Link to this contribution) The schools Minister has reiterated that the English baccalaureate will not be an accountability mea...
Graham Stuart | 527 c1216 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to take part in this debate, and to see so many faces from the Public Bill Committe...
Steve Baker | 527 c1215 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman says that the English baccalaureate is too prescriptive, but moments earlie...
Andy Burnham | 527 c1214 (Link to this contribution) Where is student choice in this system? What are the rights of children, particularly those who have...
Andy Burnham | 527 c1215-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful, Mr Deputy Speaker. As I have said before, the Secretary of State is in danger of coll...
Speaker | 527 c1215 (Link to this contribution) Order. The debate may be straying into rather more general matters than the new clauses and amendmen...
Graham Stuart | 527 c1217-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point. Where the institution feels that it best serves its mission t...
Stephen Twigg | 527 c1216-7 (Link to this contribution) The Select Committee Chair says that new clause 2 would not extend selection, but it would involve i...
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 527 c1208 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. The right hon. Gentleman is entirely correct. No new selective schools would be created ...
Graham Stuart | 527 c1209 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend paints a powerful picture. It is inspiring to imagine that schools that, because of t...
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 527 c1209 (Link to this contribution) I happily give way to my hon. Friend, the Chairman of the Select Committee.
Andy Burnham | 527 c1210 (Link to this contribution) Yes, we do, but that is not the central point. In making that move, the Minister is weakening the ov...
Andy Burnham | 527 c1209-10 (Link to this contribution) Take two. I will speak to new clause 10 and amendments 9, 10, 11 and 13, which are in my name and th...
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 527 c1209 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Chairman of the Select Committee for his support. As he said, the new clause wo...
Graham Stuart | 527 c1210 (Link to this contribution) Going back to the right hon. Gentleman's point about the English baccalaureate, does he agree that w...
Graham Stuart | 527 c1211 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, who is nodding, has helped champion that issue very effectively in the Education Com...
John Hayes | 527 c1211 (Link to this contribution) How does the shadow Secretary of State reconcile his rather jaundiced view of the Government's commi...
Andy Burnham | 527 c1211 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. I agree with his emphasis on the needs of every child, ...
Andy Burnham | 527 c1211 (Link to this contribution) That is not the full answer. If schools are being judged by the gold standard of specific GCSEs, doe...
Andy Burnham | 527 c1211 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some progress, but maybe I will give way to the Chairman of the Education Committee a...
Graham Stuart | 527 c1211 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Andy Burnham | 527 c1211-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend puts his finger on it. I said when I took on this job that I wanted more focus on the...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1203 (Link to this contribution) I have listened to my hon. and learned Friend with great care, and he makes his case persuasively, b...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1203 (Link to this contribution) I have no idea what the view of the House would be. I am not sure that the right hon. Gentleman woul...
Stephen Phillips | 527 c1203 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has quite rightly stressed the importance of using the funding for academies to raise a...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 527 c1203 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way; I am not too grateful for his comments. Supposing the ...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1203 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the right hon. Gentleman.
Graham Stuart | 527 c1202 (Link to this contribution) I share the sentiments expressed by my hon. Friend the Member for East Surrey (Mr Gyimah) about the ...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1201-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. There is no requirement to conduct a consultation in a spec...
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 527 c1207-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to have this opportunity to participate in this important debate, which has s...
Andy Burnham | 527 c1208 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman just spoke about schools opening their doors to all children. Will he confirm tha...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 527 c1205 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am not pressing my new clause, even though the Minister co...
Speaker | 527 c1205 (Link to this contribution) As amusing as that may be, it is not a point of order.
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 527 c1206 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Speaker | 527 c1206-7 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 527 c1204 (Link to this contribution) I make one last plea to the Minister. My constituents are not interested in a sectarian Government s...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1204 (Link to this contribution) I share that view. There is too much sectarianism in education. There should be more working between...
Mark Field | 527 c1204 (Link to this contribution) The Minister refers to principles. Does he accept my view that an important academic and educational...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1204-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. We need to ensure that our comprehensive schools are genuinely catering for...
Dan Rogerson | 527 c1193 (Link to this contribution) First, I hasten to clarify that it is not the coalition agreement that is under renegotiation. There...
Kevin Brennan | 527 c1191 (Link to this contribution) Sorry about that, Mr Deputy Speaker. Of course I would never interrupt my boss in mid-flow—we know t...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1191 (Link to this contribution) Of course, boarding academies will not be permitted to make a profit on the boarding elements of the...
Andy Burnham | 527 c1191 (Link to this contribution) Then I think that you should have called Kevin Brennan instead.
Speaker | 527 c1191 (Link to this contribution) I did ask the Whip to check. I call Mr Kevin Brennan.
Stephen Phillips | 527 c1193 (Link to this contribution) As someone who benefited from the assisted places scheme, I can perhaps understand more than most th...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 527 c1193 (Link to this contribution) For the simple reason that the average payment that we get from taxpayers to educate would be less t...
Kevin Brennan | 527 c1191-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Schools Minister for that answer, which is very helpful. On amendments 34 and ...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 527 c1192-3 (Link to this contribution) I rise to support new clause 19, which stands in my name. I can do so briefly and I am sure that col...
Richard Fuller | 527 c1194-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mr Field) for the second time...
Stephen Phillips | 527 c1197-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to address, albeit briefly, new clause 1 to which my hon. Friend t...
Stephen McPartland | 527 c1198 (Link to this contribution) I, too, had not intended to speak, but I would like to do so in defence of new clause 1, tabled by m...
Sam Gyimah | 527 c1198-9 (Link to this contribution) I wish to speak to new clause 1, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Bedford (Richard Fuller), w...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1199-200 (Link to this contribution) I will speak fist to new clause 1, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Bedford (Richard Fuller),...
Mark Field | 527 c1200 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister not recognise some of the concerns felt by Government Members? One of the fundamen...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1200-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point, and I am not unsympathetic to the views he expresses. I kno...
Richard Fuller | 527 c1201 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that a consultation process that requires and comprises a public meeting f...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 527 c1193-4 (Link to this contribution) I was doing the calculations without the pupil premium, which is a terrifically important innovation...
Dan Rogerson | 527 c1227 (Link to this contribution) It is important to base things on evidence. I went to a Church primary school and my two elder child...
Kevin Brennan | 527 c1229 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps my hon. Friend remembers that I asked the Minister when the Green Paper would be published. ...
Meg Munn | 527 c1228 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that it is in the Government's interest to follow the proposals in the ame...
Stella Creasy | 527 c1227-8 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak in support of amendment 40. I speak also on behalf of several of my hon. Friends who...
Simon Hughes | 527 c1231-2 (Link to this contribution) I am really here to take part in the debate on the next group of amendments, but I want to refer to ...
Stella Creasy | 527 c1231 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point. One of the key issues for me is that in Committee the Mini...
Ian Mearns | 527 c1230 (Link to this contribution) I am very taken with what my hon. Friend is saying and wonder how the Minister will give the reassur...
Stella Creasy | 527 c1229-30 (Link to this contribution) I am always aware of what we might call the cleansing effect of shadow Ministers on the Departments ...
Kevin Brennan | 527 c1232 (Link to this contribution) What the right hon. Gentleman says is welcome, but is he content to allow for the weakening of the s...
Andy Burnham | 527 c1225 (Link to this contribution) I am disappointed that the hon. Gentleman is giving the Government the benefit of the doubt and I am...
Dan Rogerson | 527 c1225 (Link to this contribution) I welcome that contribution and the hon. Gentleman has been very forthright in raising the issues th...
Kevin Brennan | 527 c1226 (Link to this contribution) I can understand why the hon. Gentleman feels that he is required to support measures in the coaliti...
Dan Rogerson | 527 c1225-6 (Link to this contribution) A number of issues in the policy were passed at the last conference. As a keen student of what goes ...
Dan Rogerson | 527 c1226 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that this concept of muscular liberalism has come back. I am sure that we will not he...
Graham Stuart | 527 c1226-7 (Link to this contribution) Going back to an earlier point, this is all about the incentives that apply to schools. The head tea...
Dan Rogerson | 527 c1226 (Link to this contribution) That is a personal remark—I resemble that remark. As I said in an intervention on the right hon. Me...
Dan Rogerson | 527 c1227 (Link to this contribution) I welcome that intervention from the Chair of the Select Committee on Education, which will be provi...
Damian Hinds | 527 c1227 (Link to this contribution) Church schools have come up two or three times now and there seems to be some assumption that it is ...
Pat Glass | 527 c1224 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Dan Rogerson | 527 c1224 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that Labour Members have raised some of these issues, because it is right that we explo...
Barry Sheerman | 527 c1223-4 (Link to this contribution) I do not quite know how to follow that speech. The hon. Member for Beverley and Holderness (Mr Stuar...
Graham Stuart | 527 c1222-3 (Link to this contribution) I have a great deal of respect for the hon. Gentleman, who is a distinguished member of the Select C...
Ian Mearns | 527 c1222 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman. For a short time I thought that I was in the back of a bus...
Barry Sheerman | 527 c1225 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for North West Durham (Pat Glass) was actually making the point that she t...
Pat Glass | 527 c1224-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who was a fellow member of the Public Bill Committee. I can rem...
Dan Rogerson | 527 c1225 (Link to this contribution) The point that the right hon. Member for Leigh raised is that we do not have the code in front of us...
Graham Stuart | 527 c1219 (Link to this contribution) Before I give way to the former Chair of the Select Committee, I must deal with the point on which I...
Barry Sheerman | 527 c1219 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Graham Stuart | 527 c1219 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is incorrect on the central point. Although the report did not take the same form...
Barry Sheerman | 527 c1219 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that the hon. Gentleman means to do so, but he is being a little misleading about wha...
Graham Stuart | 527 c1218-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes some fair points. Certainly the right of the child is central, but I believe tha...
Lisa Nandy | 527 c1218 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree that it is important for parents to be involved and in control of decisions about...
Barry Sheerman | 527 c1219-20 (Link to this contribution) Of course we rejected that element of policy, and quite rightly, but that is not the case that the h...
Graham Stuart | 527 c1220-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is entitled to his views on how current regulation should be changed. That, after...
Ian Mearns | 527 c1222 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Graham Stuart | 527 c1222 (Link to this contribution) I am aware that I have been speaking for too long already, but I will give way to the hon. Gentleman...
Esther McVey | 527 c1249 (Link to this contribution) I, along with Opposition colleagues, have tabled amendment 27 to require the Secretary of State to"“...
Lisa Nandy | 527 c1248-9 (Link to this contribution) First, it is absolutely clear who is sending a message to young people in this country that we do no...
Graham Stuart | 527 c1248 (Link to this contribution) I cannot let what the hon. Lady has just said pass. People from lower-income families can afford to ...
Lisa Nandy | 527 c1247 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. Despite everything that has happened and the anger that many of us have...
Graham Stuart | 527 c1245 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to speak again in the debate, and to follow the hon. Member for Scunthorpe (Nic Dak...
Ian Mearns | 527 c1247 (Link to this contribution) It is also a concern that the decision to abolish the EMA in the first place was based on flawed evi...
Lisa Nandy | 527 c1246-7 (Link to this contribution) First, I associate myself wholeheartedly with the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Scunthor...
Julie Hilling | 527 c1255 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware of the Department for Education and Skills survey of 5,000 young people, whi...
Iain Wright | 527 c1250-1 (Link to this contribution) I shall be brief, given the time constraints, and speak specifically to new clause 9. I agree with e...
Iain Wright | 527 c1251 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will recall the information, advice and guidance strategy that I published, ““Quality, ...
John Hayes | 527 c1251 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman would not want anything to remain on the record that might, however u...
Iain Wright | 527 c1251-2 (Link to this contribution) Let me concede that the Minister has been the best Minister for Further Education, Skills and Lifelo...
John Hayes | 527 c1251 (Link to this contribution) That was ungallant of me, so let me qualify what I said. The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. Som...
Iain Wright | 527 c1253 (Link to this contribution) Under the existing provisions for EMA, around 600,000 young people were helped to continue their edu...
Simon Hughes | 527 c1252-3 (Link to this contribution) I, too, am conscious of the time so I shall be brief. I welcome the debate, as I welcome the co-oper...
Simon Hughes | 527 c1232 (Link to this contribution) In my introduction I was careful to say that I wanted to limit my comments on this group to that one...
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 527 c1233 (Link to this contribution) I assure my hon. Friend that I will continue to argue the case in a principled way if I can. I take ...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1233 (Link to this contribution) I thought that I had made the position clear. There are no plans to change that approach. We made it...
Simon Hughes | 527 c1232-3 (Link to this contribution) I understand that the policy is not part of the coalition agreement, but secondly, if there are such...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1233 (Link to this contribution) Several amendments from right hon. and hon. Members relate to fair access to schools, and I propose ...
John Redwood | 527 c1234 (Link to this contribution) The Minister said that there was an objection to increasing the number of selective schools. Of cour...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1234 (Link to this contribution) I cannot say more than I have said. We gave a commitment that we would not increase the number of se...
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 527 c1234 (Link to this contribution) I would hate good people involved in education to waste their time, so I want to be clear about whet...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1234 (Link to this contribution) I really cannot add anything to what I have said. We will talk to good independent schools, selectiv...
Kevin Brennan | 527 c1234 (Link to this contribution) In answer to the question from the hon. Member for Altrincham and Sale West (Mr Brady), surely such ...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1234-5 (Link to this contribution) No, they would not be wasting their time, because I am not convinced that these issues are deterring...
Pat Glass | 527 c1235 (Link to this contribution) Surely localism is about supporting parents and their rights. Anything that weakens parents' rights,...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1235 (Link to this contribution) I think the hon. Lady and, in particular, the shadow Secretary of State overstate their case. We are...
Andy Burnham | 527 c1235 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has just mentioned the work to change the admissions code. Will he tell us today why he...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1235-6 (Link to this contribution) As I said in Committee, the revision of the admissions and appeals codes is a huge undertaking, and ...
Andy Burnham | 527 c1236 (Link to this contribution) That is just not an acceptable answer. The Minister gave a commitment that the code would be ready f...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1236 (Link to this contribution) It is not right yet. When it is right, it will be published. I want to ensure that the code is right...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1236 (Link to this contribution) Well, frankly, it does not affect the issues in the Bill. There is one clause related to admissions,...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1238-9 (Link to this contribution) The example that the hon. Lady gives applies to one individual, but an objection to admission arrang...
Pat Glass | 527 c1236-7 (Link to this contribution) However much the Minister values schools forums, they are the only mechanisms through which parents ...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1237-8 (Link to this contribution) There is a philosophical difference between the Government and Opposition. We do not believe that th...
Barry Sheerman | 527 c1240 (Link to this contribution) I think the Minister was here listening to the debate earlier, but the Select Committee's report on ...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1240 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. Those are concerns to which we are giving careful considerati...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1239-40 (Link to this contribution) Thank you. Finally, let me turn to new clause 22, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Beverley ...
Stella Creasy | 527 c1239 (Link to this contribution) I gladly take up the Minister's offer of a meeting. But will he still put on the record a commitment...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1239 (Link to this contribution) We can talk about those qualitative issues when we discuss the quantitative ones in the meeting that...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1240 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point, just as he made a good speech on those issues. Local authorities ...
Graham Stuart | 527 c1240 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way again. If, with the help of home educators,...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1241 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to accept my hon. Friend's invitation. As he knows, I always take his views on education ...
Graham Stuart | 527 c1240 (Link to this contribution) May I express my gratitude to my hon. Friend for listening to the representations from me and from h...
Nicholas Dakin | 527 c1243-4 (Link to this contribution) I want to cover three areas. The first relates to education maintenance allowance and the direction ...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1241 (Link to this contribution) There you are; you heard it from the Secretary of State himself. My hon. Friend is the best-informed...
Lord Brady of Altrincham | 527 c1241 (Link to this contribution) I shall not detain the House for long. New clause 2 was a modest but practical measure that would ha...
Nicholas Dakin | 527 c1241 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Speaker | 527 c1241-3 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
Meg Munn | 527 c1276-7 (Link to this contribution) This is a disappointing Bill. It will not do what an Education Bill should do—put children and their...
Robert Buckland | 527 c1276 (Link to this contribution) In supporting the Bill on Third Reading, I want to put particular emphasis on clause 13 and the rest...
Speaker | 527 c1281 (Link to this contribution) The short answer to the hon. Gentleman is no. Any Minister can provide a rationale or an explanation...
Kevin Brennan | 527 c1281 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Speaker. You will have noted that the Secretary of State was not present for...
John McDonnell | 527 c1275-6 (Link to this contribution) The Bill abolishes a number of bodies—the General Teaching Council for England, the Training and Dev...
John McDonnell | 527 c1276 (Link to this contribution) It is incredibly helpful to have that on the record. It would be valuable if the Minister could see ...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1276 (Link to this contribution) We are committed to applying the principles of the Cabinet Office statement of practice, which has b...
Kevin Brennan | 527 c1269 (Link to this contribution) May I ask whether the Secretary of State's absence is authorised or unauthorised?
Andy Burnham | 527 c1272-3 (Link to this contribution) You are absolutely right, Mr Speaker, and I apologise. The right hon. Member—I am struggling to rem...
Speaker | 527 c1271 (Link to this contribution) May I gently point out to the shadow Secretary of State, as I equally could to the Minister, that th...
Andy Burnham | 527 c1271-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Speaker. The Secretary of State's first Bill was rammed through with unseemly haste, ...
Stephen Phillips | 527 c1275 (Link to this contribution) I shall keep my contribution extremely brief. I speak as a former chair of governors at a special sc...
Julie Hilling | 527 c1274-5 (Link to this contribution) Given the time, I shall speak very briefly about the Bill, which is bad in so many ways. The Governm...
Stephen McPartland | 527 c1274 (Link to this contribution) I will be very brief, Mr Speaker—two minutes or less, I promise. I was a member of the Public Bill C...
Speaker | 527 c1273 (Link to this contribution) Order. There are 11 minutes to go and several Members who wish to participate. Extreme brevity would...
Bill Esterson | 527 c1255 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes the case very well for the success of the existing careers service and the impo...
John Hayes | 527 c1255-7 (Link to this contribution) I will speak to Government amendments 36 and 37 and deal with the remarks made by hon. Members on th...
John Hayes | 527 c1257-8 (Link to this contribution) I will not, because I do not have time. I am terribly sorry. The hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr Wri...
John McDonnell | 527 c1267-8 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. As a result of the programme motion and the flow of debat...
Kevin Brennan | 527 c1268 (Link to this contribution) Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. My hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlin...
Speaker | 527 c1268 (Link to this contribution) I understand why the hon. Gentleman is frustrated by his inability to participate in debate on the a...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1268-9 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. Let me begin by thanking all Members on bo...
Speaker | 527 c1268 (Link to this contribution) I think I understand the gist of the hon. Gentleman's point of order. As he well knows, and as I mad...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1189 (Link to this contribution) Ultimately, it is up to the local authority as to whether it remits boarding fees. These powers are ...
Kevin Brennan | 527 c1189 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful, again, to the Minister, and I think that it sometimes saves us time if we do things i...
Kevin Brennan | 527 c1190 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister confirm that full data and statistics will be kept on the number of pupils being r...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1188 (Link to this contribution) Yes, and innovative sittings. New clause 20 seeks to give pupil referral units in England greater a...
Kevin Brennan | 527 c1188 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister explain how each PRU's budget share will be calculated?
Nick Gibb | 527 c1188-9 (Link to this contribution) The finance regulations will apply to PRUs in the same way that they apply to maintained schools, an...
Speaker | 527 c1191 (Link to this contribution) No, we are dealing with the whole of the first group.
Andy Burnham | 527 c1190 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. Labour's main objection to this Bill is with how it takes power off p...
Kevin Brennan | 527 c1190 (Link to this contribution) Clearly, if pupils are no longer being excluded as an alternative provision referral is being made, ...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1190 (Link to this contribution) Local authorities will, of course, keep records. Our trial is being run precisely to tackle the prob...
Meg Munn | 527 c1190 (Link to this contribution) This discussion is important. The Minister will know that many Labour Committee members were particu...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1190 (Link to this contribution) The issues were raised in Committee, and these are technical amendments—they are about getting the w...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1187 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Nick Gibb | 527 c1188 (Link to this contribution) I shall also speak to Government new clause 21 and Government amendments 34, 35, 38 and 39. It is a...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1210 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman support, then, our measure in the Bill to extend the right to complain...
Barry Sheerman | 527 c1211 (Link to this contribution) I am sure my right hon. Friend is aware that the latest figures given to the Skills Commission only ...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1202-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, and the Government are committed to protecting those employment rights. Th...
Stella Creasy | 527 c1228-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is exactly right. The amendment is about implementation. How do we make sure that as ...
Bill Esterson | 527 c1254 (Link to this contribution) I want to speak to the amendment in my name, on the careers service and Connexions, and to the propo...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1269-71 (Link to this contribution) I find it upsetting when people complain about my presence in debates. Frankly, I think that the hon...
Speaker | 527 c1247 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I just point out that we are running close to time and interventions should therefore be ...
Graham Stuart | 527 c1245-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has a point, which is why it is important for us to be reassured about the interi...
Simon Hughes | 527 c1253-4 (Link to this contribution) Again, the hon. Gentleman would not want to mislead people. The scheme proposes that everyone who th...
Andy Burnham | 527 c1236 (Link to this contribution) And we don't get any chance to look at it?
Speaker | 527 c1187-8 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:
Speaker | 527 c1272 (Link to this contribution) May I say to the shadow Secretary of State that he is quite an experienced Member, and he should not...
Nick Gibb | 527 c1189 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to give way to the hon. Gentleman.
Nick Gibb | 527 c1190 (Link to this contribution) I will write to the hon. Gentleman to make sure that I am giving him an accurate response on the dat...

Subjects

Complaints
Admissions
Discipline
Disadvantaged
Boarding schools
Classroom assistants
Finance
Fees and charges
Further education
Education maintenance allowance
Home education
Local government
Private education
Pre-school education
Pupil exclusions
Pupils
Standards
Teachers
Special educational needs
Vocational guidance
Secondary education
Right of search
Per capita costs
Academies
Pupil referral units
English baccalaureate
Maintained schools

Legislation

Education Bill 2010-12

Link

View this Parliamentary proceeding on www.publications.parliament.uk
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