Schools Bill [HL]

My Lords, I think I support everything that the noble Baroness, Lady Chapman of Darlington, said....

My Lords, first, I remind the Committee of my interests in respect of education in the register; ...

My Lords, I have not yet heard anything I disagree with, so I shall try to make some different po...

My Lords, it is with some trepidation that I follow two such experts in education on these Benche...

My Lords, I am not suggesting that we debate whether Clauses 2 and 4 stand part of the Bill at th...

My Lords, I have listened carefully to what everyone has said and do not disagree with much. I on...

My Lords, I regret missing Second Reading, which, according to some noble Lords we heard today, w...

My Lords, I am puzzled about how the system proposed in the Bill produces good schools. I have sp...

My Lords, unusually for me—and, I think, for most Members—I came here simply to listen, not to sp...

My Lords, I have to declare my interest as chair of the National Society, which oversees Church o...

I rise towards what I imagine is the end of a very rich and telling debate. We have seen huge exp...

My Lords, I want to add one thought to the debate. As my noble friend Lady Morris said, the Bill ...

My Lords, I did not want to stand up again, but I need to respond quickly to my noble friend, jus...

My Lords, I apologise; I should have declared my interests earlier as a chair of a multi-academy ...

My Lords, very briefly, when my noble friend replies, could she explain to us how the matters tha...

My Lords, I will add to the question of “academies or maintained schools”. During the coalition G...

My Lords, I intervene in what has been a wide-ranging debate. I must admit that I have felt incre...

My Lords, I intervene briefly. In listening to and reflecting on this debate, the bad news is tha...

My Lords, I shall begin by speaking to the first group of amendments, which are mostly amendments...

I think it is only right that I recognise the tone that the Minister has just struck and welcome ...

Moved by

Lord Addington

2: Clause 1, page 1, line 6, at end insert—

“(1A) The S...

My Lords, the inspiration for this amendment, I am afraid, is much of what we have already heard ...

Does the noble Lord recall that the last time this House intervened on a statutory instrument was...

I do remember that, but as a hereditary Peer I am probably more familiar than the noble Lord with...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 27A. This speech will be very short. The amendment is defensi...

My Lords, I have two clause stand part amendments, but also added my name to the amendments from ...

My Lords, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Judge, may not be in the slightest bit surprised by th...

My Lords, I have a specific question about Clause 1(6). It is odd to say that a standard may not ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Baker, for something he said in his speech that helped me ...

My Lords, I support the intention of the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, to oppose the ques...

May I now formally move that Clause 1 should not stand part of the Bill? If I cannot do that yet,...

Although I share some of the noble Lord’s concerns about simplifying the regulatory system, as a ...

My Lords, I find myself following the noble Lord, Lord Nash. I wanted to say that it was a pleasu...

My Lords, first, I owe an apology to the Committee because I did not speak at Second Reading as I...

My Lords, I intervene briefly and echo the support for all those who have spoken about the proble...

My Lords, I draw to your Lordships’ attention my relevant interest in the register as the deputy ...

Given the noble Lord’s relatively recent experience as Academies Minister, can he clarify, using ...

That is a very good question. I can tell the noble Lord candidly that when I arrived in that post...

My Lords, I am struggling to think of the collective noun for former Cabinet Ministers that are g...

We have had an excellent debate from so many noble Lords. I shall try to be concise, because so m...

My Lords, I move on to the second group of amendments. As I have spoken at length on the first gr...

My Lords, that was an interesting and full answer, but one that did not in any way allay my fears...

Moved by

Lord Lucas

7: Clause 1, page 1, line 8, leave out “, and the curriculum foll...

My Lords, in moving this amendment I will speak also to the other amendments in this group. We ha...

My Lords, I want briefly to respond to the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, about his am...

My Lords, I follow those welcome comments from the noble Baroness. This conversation—the closest ...

May I very briefly add to that? This is not just a matter for the Government; it is also a matter...

We do, of course, have the ability to recommit a Bill to Committee if there are substantial chang...

My Lords, I rise briefly to support my noble friend Lord Lucas on protecting these freedoms and t...

My Lords, I apologise for missing some of the earlier speeches; the ones I heard were very helpfu...

My Lords, I will make a very brief intervention. I struggle with the whole issue of the curriculu...

I think that we are at risk of having a really interesting debate about the substance of what a c...

Reflecting on the debate that we have had, it occurs to me that, effectively, in announcing that ...

Is it? I would like to know the answer to that question, because it is not clear whether that is ...

My Lords, it is probably worth my reiterating my noble friend the Minister’s comments that we hav...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend the Minister for her response. I think that it merely ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. He has really illustrated the puzzle I ...

No, my Lords, nor do I; I think it would work much better in that sort of way. The Government are...

I intervene briefly to say that an enormous amount of work could and should be done on the curric...

Yes, my Lords, and I imagine that we will have it as a part of the process of deciding how to tur...

Moved by

Baroness Brinton

8: Clause 1, page 1, line 10, after “health” insert “(inclu...

My Lords, I start by saying that my noble friend Lord Storey is unable to be in his place today, ...

My Lords, I will speak chiefly to Amendment 21A in my name. We are again addressing Clause 1; I w...

My Lords, I lend my support to the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, on Amendment 8 and to my noble f...

My Lords, I will speak to the two amendments in this group that have my name on them, Amendments ...

My Lords, I shall say just a few words in support of Amendment 22, in the names of the noble Baro...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 8, proposed by the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, and talked a...

My Lords, it is interesting to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, because I do not entirely agr...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 22 and 37 in my name and that of my noble friend Lady Chapma...

My Lords, as the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, has said, we have exchanged our telescopes for mic...

I am trying to get an assurance that there is a way to make sure that, if a new regulation is put...

I hope to assure the noble Lord that those requirements will be written into the academy trust st...

Could the Minister address the point I made about democracy within schools and pupils having a sa...

Again, I think that would be something that would not be set out in the academy standards but wou...

I am very grateful to noble Lords for their very helpful interventions in this short debate. Rath...

By way of clarification, I certainly do not think it is a consequence of Covid or lockdown. I was...

I am very grateful to the noble Baroness for that explanation. One of the reasons we need this is...

Moved by

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

23: Clause 1, page 2, line 18, at end insert—