Schools Bill [HL]

I apologise, but I want to intervene on the Minister before she gets too much into her stride. I ...

Of course, we will take that into consideration. I was not aware of the noble Baroness’s concerns...

My Lords, I rise to introduce Amendments 76A and 76B, tabled by my noble friend Lord German, who ...

My Lords, the amendments my noble friend has tabled really show how interconnected all the Bill’s...

My Lords, I speak in place of my colleague, the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Durham, who ...

My Lords, I have a lot of sympathy with the intervention from the Front Bench by my noble friend ...

My Lords, following on from the comments of my friend the noble Lord, Lord Baker, the difficulty ...

My Lords, I will make a couple of observations. First, I strongly agree with the noble Baroness, ...

My Lords, I want to raise a point probably connected to the comments of my noble friend Lord Bake...

My Lords, I declare my interests as a chair of an academy trust and as a trustee of the Education...

My Lords, it is really something for me to say that I agree with most of the noble Lords opposite...

I echo the comments that have been made in support of my earlier intervention. It seems extraordi...

My Lords, I thank your Lordships for your contributions. I confess to being puzzled about the con...

My Lords, with the greatest respect, I say that the Government put those amendments into one grou...

As the noble Lord heard me say, this was agreed through the usual channels where we could have di...

I am grateful; that is helpful. Does the Minister intend to publish any guidance or examples? At ...

I undertake that we will provide guidance—in inverted commas—whether that is formal guidance or s...

Moved by

Lord Addington

31: Clause 3, page 4, line 2, leave out subsection (1)

My Lords, when we come back to this, we come back to our old friend the Delegated Powers and Regu...

My Lords, I rise to speak in place of my noble colleague the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of...

We see that this group concerns the Secretary of State’s power to make regulations for any educat...

My Lords, I am slightly confused about the order of this but I thought it was really important th...

My Lords, I think Amendment 35 allows us to discuss Clause 3 standing part of the Bill, and I wou...

My Lords, Clause 3 stand part was debated on our first day of Committee.

I do not believe that Clause 3 was passed on the first day—

My Lords, Clause 3 was not passed. It is possible for the noble Lord to de-group and discuss Clau...

My Lords—

My Lords, I wonder whether I might assist the noble Lord and the Committee. I just want to make i...

I thought that in fact, with great respect, in the earlier debate we debated Clauses 1 and 4, whi...

My Lords, it may be the Marshalled List that is causing confusion. We have Amendment 35 on the Ma...

My Lords, it might be helpful to point out that my amendment was inspired by the Delegated Powers...

My Lords, I shall now speak to the group of amendments relating to Clause 3, ahead of the questio...

I do not know whether it is the Committee’s problem, but it is my problem, as I do not understand...

My noble friend is right—the thing we should principally be concerned about is improving the educ...

The Minister said at the start of her summing up—and it was about the 20th time she had said it—t...

Tempting as it is to take power into my hands and give the noble Baroness the answer straightaway...

Before the Minister sits down, I just ask a simple question: when?

I must explain to the Committee that I am not able to give a firm date on that today, but as soon...

In the debate last week, I was delighted to commend the wisdom and clarity of the noble Viscount,...

I apologise to the noble Baroness. I do not think there is much I can add beyond what I have alre...

My Lords, really, this is something of a hangover from day one—something I think the noble Barone...

My Lords, I remind the Committee that this Question was debated in the first group of amendments ...

May I speak to this?

You may.

I was reminded earlier by the Minister that there was a debate on Clause 3—I remember it very viv...

My Lords, with the greatest respect to the noble Lord—I very much agree with the thrust of what h...

Does the noble Lord wish to continue to discuss Clause 3 stand part?

I would like to. Clauses 1 and 3 are crucial parts of the Bill, and Clause 3 extends the power of...

Since the noble Lord has raised the issue of Clause 3 standing part of the Bill, I wonder whether...

I thank your Lordships. I will keep my remarks extremely brief, because we covered many of the po...

Moved by

Lord Knight of Weymouth

35A: Schedule 1, page 88, line 28, at end insert—