Parliamentary search - Schools White Paper

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

674 c1104-21

Session

2005-06

Department

Department for Education and Skills

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Higher standards, better schools for all: more choice for parents and pupils.
Tuesday, 25 October 2005
Command papers
House of Lords
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Lord Jones | 674 c1116 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does the Minister understand that more choice for parents and pupils can be an irresistibl...

Lord Adonis | 674 c1116-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, education is a substantially devolved matter in respect of Wales. The regulation of the sc...

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Lord Baker of Dorking | 674 c1117 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the Government unreservedly on reintroducing the sort of school that I intr...

Lord Adonis | 674 c1117-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on the second point, it is a requirement that faith schools should be open to pupils of al...

Bishop of Salisbury | 674 c1115-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise to the Minister for attempting to stop him. That is not a good example of the ...

Lord Adonis | 674 c1116 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I may first say how sorry we are that the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Por...

Bishop of Salisbury | 674 c1116 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I should tell your Lordships that he has responded enormously well to treatment. I am goin...

Lord Adonis | 674 c1116 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we send those good wishes in full measure. I thank the right reverend Prelate for his rem...

Lord Adonis | 674 c1118-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord raises a number of important issues. The role of these trusts will be impor...

Lord Dearing | 674 c1118 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, when I read through the White Paper I was able to tick off with gladness the emphasis give...

Lord Adonis | 674 c1121 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if one visits schools that were grant-maintained, they are almost invariably flourishing t...

Baroness Crawley | 674 c1121 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am afraid that time is up because a custom of making secondary interventions is creeping...

Lord Adonis | 674 c1120-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was answering the questions put by the noble Baroness. I think that she adopts a very cy...

Baroness Seccombe | 674 c1121 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I very rarely intervene on a Statement, but today I feel that I cannot let this moment go ...

Lord Adonis | 674 c1120 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not accept that structural reform is inimical to the best interests of teachers or to...

Lord Adonis | 674 c1119 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I should make it clear that I meant all faiths and none.

Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 674 c1119-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will put three quick questions to the Minister. He has made much of the improvement in q...

Lord Wedderburn of Charlton | 674 c1119 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before my noble friend sits down, will he refer to a previous statement he made about chil...

Lord Adonis | 674 c1104-7 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House I shall repeat a Statement on school reform made in another place by my ...

Baroness Buscombe | 674 c1107-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating the Statement. Our approach to his proposals will be s...

Baroness Crawley | 674 c1112 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister will reply at this stage, and then I am sure that the right reverend Prelate ...

Lord Adonis | 674 c1114-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that is very reassuring, and I look forward to studying Hansard on that point. Our belief ...

Baroness Buscombe | 674 c1114 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I reassure the Minister that I do not think I said anything about ability in terms of sele...

Lord Adonis | 674 c1112-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am new; I am happy to do whatever the House wishes. The noble Baroness, Lady Buscombe, s...

Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 674 c1120 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the change to specialist status brought an extra half a million pounds to each school.

Bishop of Salisbury | 674 c1112 (Link to this contribution) My Lords—

Baroness Walmsley | 674 c1110-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating the Statement of the Secretary of State in another plac...

Subjects

Admissions

Discipline

Local government

Parents

Pupils

Standards

Schools

School choice

Reform

Trust schools

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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