Education and Adoption Bill

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Amendments 8A, 8C, 8D, 9, 9A and 10A conce...

Before the noble Lord moves on to his other amendments, I would like to elaborate on the point th...

I thank the Minister. I was going to thank him in my summing-up speech, but I do it now.

Th...

I advise the House that, if Amendment 8B is agreed to, I cannot call Amendments 8C to 9A inclusiv...

My Lords, I shall speak to my Amendments 10, 11, 12 and 13 in this group, where we are essentiall...

My Lords, I am a little puzzled by the groupings. I thought that we were discussing government Am...

My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to respond to the amendments in this group after our delibera...

My Lords, I will speak to my Amendment 14 in this group, which aims to ease the return of childre...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for the correspondence which he so generously sent to all noble Lo...

My Lords, I support Amendment 15 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Addington. The Government’s ...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly to these amendments. Like everyone else, I welcome government Ame...

My Lords, I am very happy to have my name on the amendment headed by the noble Earl, Lord Listowe...

Having read over the amendments, I wonder about one small technical point in Amendment 24. Propos...

My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to speak to this group of amendments. I apologise tha...

I shall speak to Amendment 15. I preface my remarks by saying that I agree with the noble Lord, L...

My Lords, first, I must apologise to the Minister: I referred to Amendment 20, as the noble Lord,...

My Lords, I would like to speak to the group containing Amendments 8B, 9B, 10B, 15B and 24, table...

I really meant that, in the event that the provisions of government Amendment 24 were to be invok...

For a failing academy we would proceed as quickly as we could identify an alternative sponsor. Th...

My Lords, it has been an interesting and very wide-ranging debate. I do not envy the Minister his...

Moved by

Lord Nash

8B: Clause 1, page 1, line 10, leave out from “if” to end of line ...

Moved by

Lord Nash

9B: Clause 1, page 1, line 14, at end insert—

“( ) The Secre...

Moved by

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

10: Clause 1, page 1, line 15, leave out “may” and ...

Moved by

Lord Nash

10B: Clause 1, page 1, line 16, leave out “for the purposes of sub...

Moved by

Lord Nash

15B: Clause 1, page 1, line 16, at end insert—

“( ) In secti...

Moved by

Lord Watson of Invergowrie

15C: Clause 7, page 6, line 5, leave out “must” a...

My Lords, these amendments emphasise the need for consultation before a school becomes an academy...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 15C and 16A. I guess that every Member of the House who has...

My Lords, I will speak only briefly on the amendment because the issue of consultation has been c...

My Lords, I support this group of amendments. On Amendment 16A, I always thought it curious that ...

My Lords, I agree with many of the remarks of the noble Baroness, Lady Morris, about the role of ...

My Lords, listening to this debate, I feel it is finely poised. It is so important to bring paren...

Briefly, this debate has shown that both sides are right. There are two issues being debated. One...

My Lords, I do feel challenged as no fewer than three speakers have indicated that there is somet...

My Lords, we have had a very interesting and compelling debate on this topic, but one element tha...

Is the noble Baroness suggesting that there should be public hearings as part of the consultation...

Anyone involved in local government, as is the noble Lord, Lord True, knows that you can set a pr...

My Lords, I am very keen to support the idea of effective communication with our parents, not lea...

My Lords, I have some experience of these meetings with parents. I should like to talk about thre...

I shall speak to the amendments to Clauses 7 and 8, which seek to undermine the core intentions o...

My Lords, this has been a very interesting debate, with many speakers and many opinions—which can...

The approach to trying to improve schools which the noble Lord has just referred to has been trie...

That is the sort of doom and gloom we have come to associate with the Minister. I will write to h...

Perhaps I may say that after two years, in every school we have taken over the lowest grade we ha...

The noble Lord is entitled to be, and I was not denigrating him. I was merely saying that not all...

There being an equality of votes, in accordance with Standing Order 56, which provides that no pr...

Moved by

Lord Storey

15D: Clause 7, page 6, line 8, at end insert—

“( ) In dete...

I will speak also to Amendment 25. I am concerned that the whole tenor of this discussion has alm...

My Lords, I will speak on a specific issue to follow up something I raised in Committee and to ma...

Will the noble Baroness accept that the appointment of the regional schools commissioners has ver...

Those figures are from November of this year, and the regional schools commissioners had already ...

My Lords, surely the point is that the RSCs still cover a huge area. When we debated this matter ...

My Lords, Amendments 15D and 25, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Storey, and the noble Baroness, L...

I thank the Minister for clarifying the situation in terms of the inspection of academy chains. I...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for allowing me to intervene. I think that I can clarify the poin...

So I say again that some pupils will be waiting for a considerable time in their failing school w...

Moved by

Lord Watson of Invergowrie

16A: Clause 8, page 6, line 25, at end insert—