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Education Bill

Debate on bills on Tuesday, 8 February 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Michael Gove. The answering member was Andy Burnham.
Education Bill. Second reading debate agreed to on division (324 votes to 244). Programme motion on proceedings in Committee, on Report, Third Reading and any other proceedings, agreed to on question. Queen's recommendation signified. Money resolution agreed to on question.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
523 c164-268 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for Education
Legislative stage
Second reading
Procedure
Programme motions
Money resolutions
Queen's recommendation
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Education Bill. Explanatory notes also published (Bill 137-EN).
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Bills
House of Commons
Behaviour and discipline in schools. Education Select Committee first report with formal minutes (Volume I), oral and written evidence (Volume II). Additional written evidence is contained in Volume III, available on the Committee website.
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons
Annual Report of the Chief Schools Adjudicator 2010. Evidence 2 February 2011.
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 523 c195 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before we go on, I remind Members that there is an eight-minute limit. Members do not have to...
Speaker | 523 c240 (Link to this contribution) Order. A large number of Members are still trying to get into this debate, so the time limit will be...

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Andy Burnham | 523 c186 (Link to this contribution) Why did I make that comment? I made it because I believe in student choice and parent choice. I beli...
Andy Burnham | 523 c185-6 (Link to this contribution) As a proud Scouser, I can say that I never read The Old Mancunian. Indeed, I am surprised to find th...
Michael Gove | 523 c186 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman tell me why it is immoral to tell parents in which subjects schools ar...
Andy Burnham | 523 c185 (Link to this contribution) I agree that we need to ensure that all young people have absolute rigour in the basics in English a...
Andrew Gwynne | 523 c185 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend might be interested in the words of Dr Christopher Ray writing in the January e...
Mel Stride | 523 c185 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman and other Labour Members frequently refer to Sir Richard Lambert and his co...
Geraint Davies | 523 c184-5 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend may be interested to know that the chief executive of German Industry UK gave e...
Andy Burnham | 523 c185 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree with my hon. Friend. The diploma, which the previous Labour Government introduced, ...
Andy Burnham | 523 c184 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept the hon. Lady's analysis. I went from a state school to Cambridge and my dad said to...
Kevin Brennan | 523 c177 (Link to this contribution) They did not do the English baccalaureate.
Michael Gove | 523 c177 (Link to this contribution) In just a second. We are raising the bar on floor standards; we are showing less tolerance of failu...
Michael Gove | 523 c179-80 (Link to this contribution) One of my first acts was enthusiastically to support Tony Blair's Education Bill on Second Reading. ...
Barry Sheerman | 523 c179 (Link to this contribution) I cannot remember how many years the Secretary of State has been a Member of this House, but I would...
Michael Gove | 523 c178-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's own saintly behaviour while he has been in the House of Commons is an advertise...
Stephen Pound | 523 c178 (Link to this contribution) I am really not too sure how to take that, particularly as the right hon. Gentleman is now taking pr...
Michael Gove | 523 c178 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to give way to the hon. Gentleman, whom I would never accuse of being unrepentant or unre...
Stephen Pound | 523 c178 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Lisa Nandy | 523 c174 (Link to this contribution) I was glad to hear the Secretary of State mention pupils. We have heard a great deal about teachers,...
Michael Gove | 523 c176 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for mentioning Hereford sixth-form college, which I have had the opp...
Jesse Norman | 523 c176 (Link to this contribution) I welcome many aspects of the Bill and would like to draw my right hon. Friend's attention to the si...
Michael Gove | 523 c176-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an impeccable point. One of the problems with the mathematics curriculum is tha...
Andrew Percy | 523 c176 (Link to this contribution) Let me take the Secretary of State back to the curriculum. I welcome the changes that he has announc...
Michael Gove | 523 c175 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. The hon. Lady has championed children with caring responsibilities in her role working f...
Michael Gove | 523 c175-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point. We all know that in his work as a children's lawyer before h...
Patrick Mercer | 523 c177 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Andy Burnham | 523 c183 (Link to this contribution) I am going to make some progress now. The Government are re-erecting the Berlin wall between academ...
Elizabeth Truss | 523 c184 (Link to this contribution) Do not our leading competitors, such as Germany, Japan and France, specify study for more core acade...
Charlotte Leslie | 523 c184 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman recognise the massive gap between state education and private educatio...
Andy Burnham | 523 c184 (Link to this contribution) He nods, but I have severe doubts.
Michael Gove | 523 c180 (Link to this contribution) I shall not give way again. This Bill provides an historic opportunity for this country. It will he...
Andy Burnham | 523 c180-1 (Link to this contribution) It is only weeks since the Government asked the House to pass an education Act using procedures norm...
Andy Burnham | 523 c182 (Link to this contribution) I hear what the Chair of the Select Committee on Education says, but this guarantee was important be...
Graham Stuart | 523 c181-2 (Link to this contribution) May I gently request that the right hon. Gentleman does not take this line on apprenticeships? I ser...
Andy Burnham | 523 c182 (Link to this contribution) I have two points to make in response to that. The Secretary of State is very fond of talking about ...
Robert Halfon | 523 c182 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is ignoring the 75,000 extra apprenticeships this Government are creating, ...
Andy Burnham | 523 c183 (Link to this contribution) On the Minister's first point, my mum reliably informs me that in 1950s Liverpool the mass was said ...
John Hayes | 523 c182-3 (Link to this contribution) I have just been pondering what language we were speaking in the 1950s that we are not speaking now,...
Steve Rotheram | 523 c183 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that Governments do not create apprenticeships, they fund apprentice...
Graham Stuart | 523 c170 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Michael Gove | 523 c170 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to give way to the Select Committee Chairman.
Baroness Hoey | 523 c169-70 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State agree that one problem, if we are honest, is that for too long many of u...
Michael Gove | 523 c170 (Link to this contribution) As so often, the hon. Lady is absolutely right. One problem in the education system is that we need ...
Andrew Percy | 523 c169 (Link to this contribution) I had to come in after the last interesting intervention. Is it not the case that more young people ...
Michael Gove | 523 c169 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, as a former teacher, always adds to our debates with his experience and authority. H...
Graham Stuart | 523 c170 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the Secretary of State that the previous system was not working effectively. However, t...
Michael Gove | 523 c170 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to confirm that. We want to ensure that people who are barred for gross misconduct ar...
Graham Stuart | 523 c170 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State plans to keep a register of teachers who are barred from teaching. Will he co...
John Redwood | 523 c168 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is making a powerful case. If a free school gets a grant to buy land and buil...
Michael Gove | 523 c168 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that it is a live issue. One of the striking things about how the free schools programm...
Andy Slaughter | 523 c168 (Link to this contribution) As the Secretary of State always has the figures at his fingertips, can he say how much the Departme...
Michael Gove | 523 c169 (Link to this contribution) I will be very interested to hear the hon. Lady's view.
Michael Gove | 523 c169 (Link to this contribution) As I am sure that the hon. Lady knows, one does not need any training or qualification to be a Membe...
Helen Jones | 523 c169 (Link to this contribution) I would be grateful if the Secretary of State could tell the House why he believes that having unqua...
Michael Gove | 523 c173 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is passionate, and I do not doubt her commitment—
Michael Gove | 523 c172 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his point and for his personal support on discipline. I know...
Glenda Jackson | 523 c172-3 (Link to this contribution) Has the fact that the Secretary of State stood at the Opposition Dispatch Box and argued that we nee...
Simon Hughes | 523 c173 (Link to this contribution) As the Secretary of State knows from the conversations that he has had with colleagues and with me, ...
Michael Gove | 523 c173 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is typically astute. The Bill is the best that I can make it. I am sure tha...
Glenda Jackson | 523 c173 (Link to this contribution) Don't patronise me—just answer the question!
Michael Gove | 523 c173 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has won an Oscar for being successfully patronising to others. It is a pleasure to be ...
Michael Gove | 523 c173-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall try to make a little progress. There is a related challenge. Do hon. Members want to remove...
Michael Gove | 523 c170-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for making that point, and we will have an opportunity to consider i...
Bill Esterson | 523 c171 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State makes a very important point about children being school-ready. That need has...
Michael Gove | 523 c171 (Link to this contribution) I think throwing out the baby with the bathwater would be very poor practice in any Sure Start child...
Michael Gove | 523 c171-2 (Link to this contribution) I will be happy to give way in due course, but I want to make a little progress. It is important tha...
Michael Gove | 523 c172 (Link to this contribution) I would be very interested to know whether the hon. Gentleman agrees, or whether he intends to vote ...
Kevin Brennan | 523 c172 (Link to this contribution) I believe that the Secretary of State will find that there is a good deal of consensus about behavio...
Barry Sheerman | 523 c187 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Is there any point in Back Benchers turning up to education ...
Speaker | 523 c187 (Link to this contribution) That is not a point of order but it is a good point that should be made to the House. I understand t...
Andy Burnham | 523 c187 (Link to this contribution) I have answered the Secretary of State's question—[Interruption.]—and have I put it to him that an e...
Speaker | 523 c187 (Link to this contribution) Order. Mr Gove, I am sure that we can restrain ourselves for a little longer.
Andy Burnham | 523 c187 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is not even convincing his own activists. On ConservativeHome today, there wa...
Michael Gove | 523 c187 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Michael Gove | 523 c186 (Link to this contribution) I just wanted an answer to my question about which other European countries do not ask of their 15, ...
Michael Gove | 523 c186 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Andy Burnham | 523 c186 (Link to this contribution) As I said to the Secretary of State yesterday, the programme for international student assessment re...
Michael Gove | 523 c189 (Link to this contribution) Those of us who have family members with special educational needs will have found the hon. Lady's o...
Michael Gove | 523 c189 (Link to this contribution) I note that the right hon. Gentleman has not answered my previous question about EU nations, but can...
Glenda Jackson | 523 c189 (Link to this contribution) He is talking about children with special educational needs and you are going on about other matters...
Michael Gove | 523 c189 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Andy Burnham | 523 c189 (Link to this contribution) I will give way on that important point.
Andy Burnham | 523 c188-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely important point. It brings me on to the subject of parents whose c...
Catherine McKinnell | 523 c188 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend share my concern that in addition to the powers being stripped from parent...
Andy Burnham | 523 c187-8 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. My point—[Interruption.] My point, if the right hon. Gentleman will listen to it, i...
Bill Esterson | 523 c191 (Link to this contribution) In my right hon. Friend's opening remarks, he mentioned contradictions and the ability to overrule l...
Andy Slaughter | 523 c190 (Link to this contribution) One of the Secretary of State's homilies was on equal chances, but my constituency is one of the mos...
Andy Burnham | 523 c190 (Link to this contribution) The Government say that they have given councils enough money, but they have also given them a list ...
Bill Esterson | 523 c191 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Andy Burnham | 523 c191 (Link to this contribution) One final time, then I shall make some progress.
Andy Burnham | 523 c190 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, who knows more about these matters than anyone in the House, has put the Secretary o...
Pat Glass | 523 c190 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State knows very well that under the Labour Government some special schools closed ...
Andy Burnham | 523 c190 (Link to this contribution) I do not have those figures to hand, but special schools closed in my constituency and in my local a...
Charlotte Leslie | 523 c228 (Link to this contribution) Is it? Well, I am pleased to be in agreement with him. It bodes well. To illustrate that point, I r...
Kevin Brennan | 523 c228 (Link to this contribution) That is what the Secretary of State said.
Richard Fuller | 523 c231-2 (Link to this contribution) I look forward to supporting this Bill with gusto on behalf of all my constituents. It is, indeed, a...
Julie Hilling | 523 c228-30 (Link to this contribution) With so much in the Bill, it is difficult to know where to start. Some of it, such as the intention ...
John Glen | 523 c234-6 (Link to this contribution) I will make four points on four aspects of the Bill. In Salisbury, I am blessed with some amazing s...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 523 c233-4 (Link to this contribution) Like the hon. Member for Bristol North West (Charlotte Leslie), I have changed some of what I was go...
Charlotte Leslie | 523 c226-7 (Link to this contribution) I have changed my speech; I have rewritten it while listening to the debate. I was going to talk abo...
Baroness Chapman of Darlington | 523 c224-6 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Gosport (Caroline Dinenage) on her brief speech. I shall endeavou...
Charlotte Leslie | 523 c227-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree absolutely, and my hon. Friend anticipates my point. The English baccalaureate shines a cold...
Mel Stride | 523 c227 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the fact that apparently only 4% of young people receiving free schoo...
Caroline Dinenage | 523 c223-4 (Link to this contribution) I support the words of the hon. Member for Huddersfield (Mr Sheerman), who made some excellent and e...
Andrew Turner | 523 c222 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Gentleman explain how it is that PISA put Britain at sixth or seventh in 2000 but at 23...
Barry Sheerman | 523 c221-2 (Link to this contribution) I think that all hon. Members who are interested in education struggle with the challenges of which ...
Andrew Turner | 523 c219-21 (Link to this contribution) One of the greatest failures of the previous Government, who started with great hope, was their fail...
John Hayes | 523 c218-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way, because I know that time is short. I have three point...
Catherine McKinnell | 523 c218 (Link to this contribution) I was about to pay tribute to the Minister's efforts in that regard, but he can intervene later if I...
Dan Rogerson | 523 c217 (Link to this contribution) In conclusion, we need to explore a number of questions in Committee and on Report that have been ra...
Catherine McKinnell | 523 c217-8 (Link to this contribution) It may not surprise many right hon. and hon. Members to learn that I want to discuss part 7 of the B...
Geraint Davies | 523 c213-5 (Link to this contribution) This Bill is part of a Government strategy to turn away from the direction in developing education t...
Jessica Lee | 523 c212-3 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend—of course we should support a school that makes that important decision,...
Dan Rogerson | 523 c215-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow such a vivid speech, describing—[Interruption.] Well, it contained a lot ...
Andrew Percy | 523 c212 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made an important point in saying that such provision is not appropriate in all c...
Jessica Lee | 523 c211-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for inviting me to speak in this important debate. I shall speak as...
Rob Wilson | 523 c204-5 (Link to this contribution) I rise to support the broad thrust of the Bill. It is unlikely to be remembered as one of the great ...
Mel Stride | 523 c203 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman refers to building on progress and mentions Cambridge. Does he feel that mu...
Lord Blunkett | 523 c203-4 (Link to this contribution) I was about to say that the Bill is about those contradictions and a historical misinterpretation. W...
Debbie Abrahams | 523 c206-7 (Link to this contribution) This Bill fails our children and young people. In spite of what the Secretary of State claims, many ...
Stephen McPartland | 523 c208-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this important education debate. My wife is a pri...
Graham Stuart | 523 c205 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a powerful case. Does he agree that big international companies such as Mic...
Rob Wilson | 523 c205-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Select Committee Chairman for his question. Of course technical skills will be important...
Baroness Hoey | 523 c209-11 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the measured speech of the hon. Member for Stevenage (Stephen McPartland)...
Graham Stuart | 523 c195-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to take part in this debate. Last year, the Academies Act 2010 flew through Parliam...
Meg Munn | 523 c197-8 (Link to this contribution) I worked in the child protection field for many years before entering the House, and I am chair of t...
Meg Munn | 523 c198 (Link to this contribution) I shall make a little more progress. Children and parents do not tell the school of young carers' r...
Meg Munn | 523 c198-9 (Link to this contribution) I shall make some progress. The Liberal Democrat spokesperson went on to say this:"““In rural areas...
Annette Brooke | 523 c200-1 (Link to this contribution) I share the aspirations and passion of the Secretary of State to improve standards for all our child...
Annette Brooke | 523 c201 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I do not have the hon. Lady's professional knowledge, only that of the limited seri...
Pat Glass | 523 c201 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that the number of middle-years serious case reviews in this country—those ...
Andy Burnham | 523 c193-4 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman again. It is simply not acceptable that we have not h...
Michael Gove | 523 c194 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Andy Burnham | 523 c193 (Link to this contribution) My point was that that level of consultation should be required. If a free school is set up, it may ...
Andy Burnham | 523 c193 (Link to this contribution) I have given way to the Secretary of State about three times, so I will give somebody else a chance....
Richard Fuller | 523 c193 (Link to this contribution) It is important that the right hon. Gentleman gets a broader perspective on his two points about fre...
Andy Burnham | 523 c194-5 (Link to this contribution) That question is not for here and now. We would not close a good school that was well integrated wit...
Michael Gove | 523 c194 (Link to this contribution) If the right hon. Gentleman were in power, would he rescind the academy status that has been acquire...
Michael Gove | 523 c192 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Andy Burnham | 523 c192 (Link to this contribution) I will not. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman's biggest slight on the professional status of teacher...
Andy Burnham | 523 c191 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very important point. I was struck yesterday by the comments of my right hon....
Andrew Percy | 523 c191 (Link to this contribution) Will the shadow Secretary of State give way?
Andy Burnham | 523 c192-3 (Link to this contribution) I will not. This Bill removes communities' rights to decide what kind of school they have—the Secre...
Michael Gove | 523 c192 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Andy Burnham | 523 c193 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. Communities need other, more practical avenues of redress. Free schools are approve...
Michael Gove | 523 c193 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Nick Gibb | 523 c261-3 (Link to this contribution) This has been an excellent debate, with speeches delivered with passion and expertise on a subject t...
Speaker | 523 c263 (Link to this contribution) I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the No Lobby. The House having divided: Ayes...
Kevin Brennan | 523 c259-61 (Link to this contribution) I would not quite go that far, but whether it is the power to close schools or the power to discipli...
Kevin Brennan | 523 c259 (Link to this contribution) I do not have time to list them all, as the Secretary of State knows, but here are a few examples: w...
Kevin Brennan | 523 c258-9 (Link to this contribution) In a minute. In Committee, we will consider the points made by my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffi...
Glenda Jackson | 523 c254 (Link to this contribution) What a pleasure it is to follow the hon. Member for Harrow East (Bob Blackman), who has broken the o...
Bob Blackman | 523 c252-3 (Link to this contribution) I support the Bill. As a recipient of free school meals who went to his local comprehensive and then...
Glenda Jackson | 523 c255 (Link to this contribution) Oh yes they are. Children's centres are being closed—
Glenda Jackson | 523 c254-5 (Link to this contribution) No. The Secretary of State also asserted that the Government are committed to ensuring that every c...
Gavin Shuker | 523 c251-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for instinctively knowing that I wanted to be called after the hon. Me...
Andrew Percy | 523 c249-50 (Link to this contribution) This has been an interesting debate, with the Bill having been described variously as minor tinkerin...
Lisa Nandy | 523 c247-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome some of the Bill's measures, in particular the commitment to retain the extension of free ...
Meg Munn | 523 c256 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Neil Carmichael | 523 c256 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not going to, because I only have a few minutes. We have to intervene in failing schools. ...
Mary MacLeod | 523 c256-8 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Bill and congratulate the Government on bringing it before the House. We have heard m...
Kevin Brennan | 523 c258 (Link to this contribution) In a moment. I am sure that people will, in a ““Focus””-like fashion, look at the way Government Mem...
Glenda Jackson | 523 c255 (Link to this contribution) The lack of imagination from Government Members never fails to amaze me. The idea that this Bill is...
Neil Carmichael | 523 c255-6 (Link to this contribution) I am reminded of the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Beverley and Holderness (Mr Stuart), ...
Damian Hinds | 523 c242-4 (Link to this contribution) At its heart, the Bill is about social mobility and opportunity for all, and we need to address thos...
Mel Stride | 523 c246-7 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Bill, because it will improve education in our country in the same way as the Academie...
Alex Cunningham | 523 c244-5 (Link to this contribution) I will, of course, oppose this Bill because it provides yet more evidence of an elitist approach to ...
Christopher Pincher | 523 c238-40 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, and to my dwindling number of fans in the Chamber for that unsolicited...
Steve Rotheram | 523 c240-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am from Liverpool, so I suppose I am getting used to cuts. I will tr...
Pat Glass | 523 c236-8 (Link to this contribution) There are elements of the Bill that I welcome. I like the parts that are intended to ensure that ful...
Speaker | 523 c238 (Link to this contribution) Order. I call Chris Pincher.
Edward Leigh | 523 c165 (Link to this contribution) Can we get back to education? The previous Labour Government tried in their last Bill to bring in co...
Andy Burnham | 523 c165 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Michael Gove | 523 c165-6 (Link to this contribution) In due course. At age seven, the gap in reading scores between those children who were eligible for...
Geraint Davies | 523 c165 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Michael Gove | 523 c165 (Link to this contribution) In due course. Inequality worsened under Labour and the education system exacerbated it. If we look...
Michael Gove | 523 c166 (Link to this contribution) I know that there is a worry throughout the country about libraries, but I see that the hon. Gentlem...
Bill Esterson | 523 c166 (Link to this contribution) I want to bring the Secretary of State back to his comments on the economy. Up until 2008, the Conse...
Michael Gove | 523 c166-7 (Link to this contribution) The total increase as a proportion of the cohort was actually less than 1%, because it was a remarka...
Andy Burnham | 523 c166 (Link to this contribution) I am not entirely sure that that was parliamentary language, again, Mr Speaker. I wonder whether you...
Lord Blunkett | 523 c167 (Link to this contribution) Of course it is true that many countries throughout the world are investing in and driving forward t...
Michael Gove | 523 c167-8 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely was comparing like with like, because the whole point about these tables is that they s...
Lord Blunkett | 523 c167 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Michael Gove | 523 c167 (Link to this contribution) Not yet. I shall be delighted to give way in just a second. By 2010, we had moved from fourth to 16...
John Redwood | 523 c167 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Michael Gove | 523 c167 (Link to this contribution) In a second. The only way in which we will generate sustainable economic growth is by reforming our...
Michael Gove | 523 c177-8 (Link to this contribution) They certainly did! The hon. Gentleman should listen, because he fails to appreciate that schools su...
Edward Timpson | 523 c175 (Link to this contribution) May I take the Secretary of State back to his remarks about the refocusing of Ofsted? I welcome the ...
Andy Burnham | 523 c184 (Link to this contribution) I wonder what evidence the hon. Lady has for that statement, because those countries—I cited the Hon...
Barry Sheerman | 523 c222-3 (Link to this contribution) I take the point, but the basis of those tables has changed. When all parties have concentrated on ...
Michael Gove | 523 c165 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for, as ever, leaping straight on to sex—I know that it is a subject...
Michael Gove | 523 c164-5 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. What a pleasure it is to appear before you,...
Andy Burnham | 523 c183 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right that the Government have nothing to say to young people who want to plan to ...
Michael Gove | 523 c168-9 (Link to this contribution) The full details will be disclosed when the funding agreement is signed, but I can reassure the hon....
Catherine McKinnell | 523 c219 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his response to those queries. At a time when we are facing the highest re...
Lord Blunkett | 523 c202-3 (Link to this contribution) I say to the Secretary of State that on reflection nothing is ever quite as good or bad as we think ...
Andy Burnham | 523 c192 (Link to this contribution) I will not; I am making some progress. On the abolition of the General Teaching Council for England...
Kevin Brennan | 523 c258 (Link to this contribution) We have had an excellent debate this evening on the Second Reading of the Bill. If I counted correct...
Michael Gove | 523 c255 (Link to this contribution) Where? At half-past 9 on a Tuesday night?
Subjects
Disclosure of information
Children in care
Admissions
Curriculum
Discipline
Crime
Disadvantaged
Carers
Apprentices
Classroom assistants
Finance
Education
Further education
Inspections
Higher education
Free school meals
Local government
Qualifications
Protection
Pre-school education
Pupil exclusions
Public bodies
Pupils
Standards
Teachers
Special educational needs
Training
Religion
Right of search
Sure Start programme
Academies
Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency
Free schools
English baccalaureate
Ofsted
Maintained schools
Legislation
Education Bill 2010-12
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