Schools Bill [HL]

Moved by

The Lord Bishop of Chichester

59: Clause 29, page 23, line 23, leave out “of...

My Lords, I rise to speak on behalf of my colleague, the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Dur...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 60A and I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, fo...

My Lords, I support the arguments just made by the noble Duke about maths schools. I am not sure ...

My Lords, I support the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Durham’s amendments, so ably spoken ...

I should perhaps declare an interest on the amendments moved by the right reverend Prelate the Bi...

My Lords, I will start by responding to Amendments 59, 64 to 67, and 71 to 74 in the name of the ...

I am a little confused. In the White Paper, the Government’s intention around MATs is quite clear...

I absolutely understand that point. I was simply reassuring the noble Duke that within this Bill ...

I have listened to what the Minister has said, having not joined in on the debate on this amendme...

We are saying that joining a multi-academy trust is a good idea and that we would like everyone t...

I may be wrong, but is there not a route to making it enforceable, or close to enforceable, by wa...

I sought to confirm the point that was directly raised by the noble Duke about the powers within ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for her various replies. I am not nearly as expert on the...

I understand the reassurances that the noble Duke seeks. I reassure him that we understand the un...

My understanding is that the powers in the Bill including ones for single-academy trusts to be su...

I take the noble Lord’s point. I absolutely reassure him that that is not the intention. I will a...

May I just articulate another problem I have? The noble Baroness used the word “intention”. When ...

I was clear about the Government’s intention for these powers, which is not to use them to make s...

In that spirit, will my noble friend also discover whether the Government have the power to use t...

My noble friend’s contribution falls within the remit of the undertaking that I have already give...

My Lords, to my mind, the various assurances the Minister has given present a further complicatio...

To be clear, the undertaking I gave was around the Bill’s powers being used to compel an existing...

I think the noble Baroness knows what we are getting at here. She has said that she will endeavou...

The most successful multi-academy trusts build on the strengths of these types of schools. The in...

My Lords, the amendment in the name of the noble Duke, the Duke of Wellington, has produced far m...

Moved by

Baroness Blower

60: Clause 29, page 23, line 24, at end insert “only with th...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 60, perhaps I might be of assistance to the noble Duke, the Duke of...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow my noble friend. I have added my name to her Amendment...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 75, in the names of the noble Baroness, Lady Blower, and the...

My Lords, I cannot resist making one general observation about the whole debate on these amendmen...

My Lords, if I can beg the Committee’s indulgence for a second, it is my birthday today.

Hear, hear!

For the second successive year, I am here in the Chamber debating an education Bill. At least whe...

My Lords, the amendments in this group are concerned mainly with rights of consultation and conse...

I am rather attracted by the concept that the Government should be very clear about the reasons w...

The Government are clear—we are talking about cases where a local authority wants a school to con...

I hope that this is an appropriate moment to ask this question. In listening to, and thinking abo...

The noble Lord’s point is a little broader than what we are talking about at the moment. With the...

My Lords, I will take the opportunity of the Minister’s slight pause to ask her a question about ...

I am glad that I have been promoted to be the noble Lord’s “noble friend”; things are looking up....

Before I begin my remarks, I wish many happy returns to my noble friend on the Front Bench.