Education and Skills Bill. Lords Report stage. Part 1 of 2 records.
Education and Skills Bill
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
704 c1692-727
Session
2007-08
Legislative stage
Report stage
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Thornton | 704 c1722 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this is the Report stage, so I think that noble Lords are able to make only one speech.
Lord Lucas | 704 c1722 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, Report stage is very tiresome from that point of view, particularly when we are getting in...
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Lord Dearing | 704 c1722 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall be very brief. It strikes me that the noble Lord, Lord Layard, is not asking for a...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 704 c1723-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I could not help reflecting that, in dealing with my first amendment, I am up against a fo...
Baroness Blackstone | 704 c1717-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I have put my name to the amendment and I strongly support what my noble friend Lord Layar...
Baroness Morris of Yardley | 704 c1719-20 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I have signed up to this amendment and wish to speak in favour of it in support of my nobl...
Baroness Whitaker | 704 c1720-1 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I apologise for not being able to take part at earlier stages of the Bill. I speak now in ...
Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 704 c1721 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I remember being rather attracted by this concept in Committee and I am further beguiled b...
Lord Lucas | 704 c1721-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, this is a very important amendment. I find myself entirely in agreement with what the nobl...
Baroness Blackstone | 704 c1693 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, unfortunately, I was not here when this issue was discussed in Committee but I would like ...
Earl of Listowel | 704 c1693-4 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, Dr Roger Morgan, the person charged with listening to the voice of children and young peop...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 704 c1694-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Morris, that a lot has changed in the 14 weeks betwe...
Baroness Morris of Bolton | 704 c1695-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the Minister for her thorough answer. I forgive her; it was remiss of me not to we...
Baroness Morris of Bolton | 704 c1692-3 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 1:
1: Clause 1, page 1, line 6, at end insert—
““( ) This Part does not apply ...
Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 704 c1693 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, in Committee was it not indicated that teenage mothers who had children under 12 months wo...
Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 704 c1696-8 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 2:
2: Clause 1, page 1, line 10, at end insert ““, and
(d) is not engaged in v...
Lord Lucas | 704 c1704-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I hope that my noble friend might in due course have an opportunity not to go down this ro...
Baroness Perry of Southwark | 704 c1705 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I cannot fault an iota of the very impassioned, excellent argument of the noble Baroness, ...
Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 704 c1706 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, not only for tabling the amendment but for the ...
Lord Elton | 704 c1705-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall revert to the Prison Service when I speak to my amendment later. I had intended to...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 704 c1707-8 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I remind the House that the proposals in the Bill would not make it compulsory for young p...
Earl of Listowel | 704 c1706-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, for bringing back this important debate. ...
Baroness Walmsley | 704 c1708-10 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 4:
4: Clause 2, page 2, line 3, at end insert ““, or
(d) have signed, and be p...
Baroness Walmsley | 704 c1708 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we obviously have not persuaded the Minister, but I fear that this fixation with compulsio...
Baroness Morris of Bolton | 704 c1710 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I added my name to the amendment proposed by the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, because we...
Lord Lucas | 704 c1698 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, is the Minister going to speak to her amendment in this group? If not, it will be difficul...
Baroness Morris of Bolton | 704 c1698 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, these are eminently sensible amendments. There is nothing better a young person can do tha...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 704 c1699-701 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I hope I can provide the clarity that the noble Baroness, Lady Sharp, is looking for. I ha...
Earl of Listowel | 704 c1699 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I shall briefly comment on what the noble Baroness, Lady Sharp, said about the importance ...
Lord Lucas | 704 c1698-9 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I want to speak, but I want to listen to the Minister first. I am sorry, I am being totall...
Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 704 c1698 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I, too, support the amendments and endorse the points made. Training in the voluntary sect...
Baroness Morris of Bolton | 704 c1704 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we made it quite clear at Second Reading and in Committee that we would much rather the Go...
Baroness Fookes | 704 c1704 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, if this amendment were agreed, I could not call Amendment No. 4, by reason of pre-emption....
Baroness Walmsley | 704 c1702-4 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 3:
3: Clause 2, page 1, line 12, leave out from ““applies”” to end of line 3 o...
Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 704 c1701-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister. She has clarified most of the issues that I wished to be cl...
Earl of Listowel | 704 c1714 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Morris, is very persuasive. However, we have entered a new econom...
Earl of Listowel | 704 c1715 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the Minister for her persuasive and helpful response. Might she consider producing...
Earl of Listowel | 704 c1717 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I also support the noble Lord, Lord Layard. In childcare, many people, such as Dr Gillian ...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 704 c1715 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, the Bill represents an absolutely integral part of our commitment in the Children’s Plan. ...
Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 704 c1717 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, we on these Benches support the noble Lord’s amendment. As a party, we have long maintaine...
Lord Layard | 704 c1715-7 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 8:
8: Clause 8, page 4, line 29, after ““learning”” insert ““away from the ind...
Lord Lucas | 704 c1711 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I can pick the noble Baroness up on this; it is the point that I was trying to make on the...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 704 c1711 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I have already sat down.
Lord Lucas | 704 c1711 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, perhaps I may ask the noble Baroness a couple of questions on her amendment. If such an ag...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 704 c1710 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, my noble friend Lord Adonis explained in Committee that our reluctance to accept the propo...
Baroness Verma | 704 c1713 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, it is clear that there is unhappiness on many sides about the issue of compulsion; placing...
Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 704 c1712-3 (Link to this contribution)
moved Amendment No. 5:
5: Clause 2, page 2, line 11, at end insert—
““( ) The duty under this sect...
Baroness Walmsley | 704 c1712 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for both of her contributions. I am quite satisfied that she wi...
Lord Elton | 704 c1711 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I say ““hear, hear””, from a standing rather than sitting position, to add force to what t...
Earl of Listowel | 704 c1711 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, perhaps it would be appropriate for me to comment now, before the Minister replies. Will t...
Lord Layard | 704 c1726-7 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for his reply and for his offer of further dialogue, whic...
Lord Davies of Oldham | 704 c1727 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I beg to move that further consideration on Report be now adjourned and, in moving the Mot...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 704 c1726 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, if I were expert enough to give a precise assurance on that I would; but I can assure my n...
Baroness Morris of Yardley | 704 c1726 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank my noble friend for his consideration of the points that I raised on non-governmen...
Lord Young of Norwood Green | 704 c1725-6 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I agree with my noble friend that that is not the purpose of the amendment, but it would s...
Baroness Blackstone | 704 c1725 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I was not suggesting that someone would be better off unemployed than in a dead-end job. I...
Lord Layard | 704 c1722 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, do not most of the successful distance-learning programmes that we know of—the Open Univer...
Lord Ramsbotham | 704 c1705 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I agree strongly with the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley. While she was speaking, I was min...
Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 704 c1714 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I remind the noble Baroness that, under Amendments Nos. 221 and 222, there is certainty; c...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 704 c1714-5 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Morris for giving us her sense of realism and her reminder of...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 704 c1711-2 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I am very much enjoying this opportunity, having tabled an amendment, to speak again. I th...
Baroness Morris of Yardley | 704 c1713 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I speak in favour of the Government’s position. I cannot recall any piece of legislation t...
Baroness Sharp of Guildford | 704 c1715 (Link to this contribution)
My Lords, I thank the Minister for her reply. I remind her, as I reminded the noble Baroness, Lady M...
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