Education and Adoption Bill

I am pleased to welcome the Education and Adoption Bill back to the House for consideration of am...

The Minister mentions parents. Does the balance of the Bill not concern him in that it gives at l...

The amendments we are debating give parents an additional entitlement to receive communication fr...

Does the Minister not worry that there is no proper procedure for a good school to decouple from ...

The hon. Gentleman raises an important point, but the regional schools commissioners, of which th...

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The Government consider that to be an important step that will allow failing schools to begin rec...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government’s proposals offer flexibility? Although there is no...

My hon. Friend is right, and nothing in the Bill prevents any amount of consultation, or a new sp...

Nobody will tolerate failure in schools. Will the Minister provide evidence of where the consulta...

In Committee I gave the hon. Gentleman and other members of the Committee ample illustrations of ...

The Minister will know that I have an academy in my constituency, which my middle son attends. It...

The hon. Gentleman gives an example of where such powers are needed. Regional schools commissione...

Does the Minister also recognise, when the regulations are drawn up, that it is possible for a sc...

Yes. Again, the hon. Gentleman makes a very good point. The definition of coasting incorporates a...

First, I pay tribute to my hon. Friends the Members for Cardiff West (Kevin Brennan) and for Birm...

My hon. Friend mentions Ofsted and power to local people. He may have seen the comments of Michae...

Absolutely; my hon. Friend makes a very good point, and I pay tribute to him for the work he is d...

To follow the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, West Derby (Stephen Twigg), Mi...

I think everybody recognises the very good work that Sir Michael Wilshaw has done, but he lays do...

To follow that up with another quick intervention, does my hon. Friend agree that too few MPs get...

I always listen carefully to what the former Chair of the Education Committee has to say, and he ...

Might there be a risk that the Government are laying the foundation for future legal challenges a...

My hon. Friend has done a great deal of work on the Bill, and I am sure that Ministers have heard...

Is it the shadow Minister’s party’s policy to retain existing academies? We are a little confused...

There is absolutely no confusion. We are just arguing that, whatever title there is above the doo...