Schools Bill [HL]

My Lords, I shall speak briefly to Amendments 50 and 55. Amendment 50 seeks to protect the intere...

My Lords, this group of amendments was powerfully and effectively introduced by the noble Lord, L...

My Lords, I shall speak on behalf of my colleague, the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Durha...

My Lords, I shall speak principally to the amendment in my name, Amendment 79B, about regional bo...

My Lords, I have two points. My tendency is to support Amendment 41 but, after hearing what my no...

My Lords, this is a wide group of amendments. I shall speak first to Amendment 49, which says tha...

My Lords, I will now respond to this group of amendments, which relates principally to the academ...

I can clarify that for the Minister. I simply picked up a view that rural schools may feel that t...

I thank the noble Lord for that. I will endeavour to find some examples that he can share with th...

I thank the Minister very much indeed. We have had a very helpful debate. I beg leave to withdraw...

Moved by

Baroness Barran

42: Clause 8, page 8, line 28, at end insert—

“(3) Sub...

Moved by

Baroness Barran

43: Clause 9, page 8, line 29, at end insert—

“(A1) Th...

Moved by

Baroness Barran

47: Clause 11, page 9, line 23, leave out “a” and insert “an...

Moved by

Baroness Barran

48: Clause 14, page 12, line 11, leave out subsections (6) a...

Moved by

The Lord Bishop of Chichester

51: Clause 20, page 14, line 30, at end insert...

My Lords, I speak on behalf my colleague, the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Durham, on his...

I thank the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Chichester for moving this amendment. As he said...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Baroness Meacher

53: Clause 25, page 18, line 20, at end insert—

“(2A)...

My Lords, I will also speak to Amendments 57 and 58. I thank Humanists UK for its excellent brief...

My Lords, I support all the amendments in this group. I shall speak to Amendments 53 and 57, to w...

My Lords, I am supportive of the last two speeches. One of the things that I suppose I regret abo...

My Lords, I speak on behalf of my colleague the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Durham and d...

I thank the right reverend Prelate for giving way. I just want to make two points. First, does th...

The points I am arguing reflect the experience and response, particularly that garnered by the Na...

My Lords, it is very useful to have the right reverend Prelate raise a religious voice against th...

I reassure the noble Baroness that Amendments 53 and 57 apply to children who have already opted ...

I am familiar with what is happening in education at the moment, and John Locke and JS Mill are n...

I have a great deal of sympathy for what the noble Baroness has just said. The phrase that comes ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, for her comments. There are two things. ...

My Lords, I will just make a very brief contribution. I have found this a very helpful, thoughtfu...

I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Shipley, for asking those questions about the good things t...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for this thoughtful debate, as we reach the end of our second d...

I thank noble Lords who have spoken in support of these amendments and I thank the Minister for h...