Schools Bill [HL]

My Lords, I had no intention of following the noble Baroness until she began to speak. I do not a...

My Lords, I commend my noble friend Lord Cormack for his courage. I probably would not have got u...

My Lords, I support what my noble friend Lord Cormack said about this Bill. We are in the most ex...

My Lords, I support both propositions of delay, particularly not giving the Bill a Third Reading....

My Lords, I rise briefly to support the noble Lord, Lord Baker, in particular. The Minister liste...

My Lords, I will briefly speak to this. I agree with the points made by the noble Lord, Lord Knig...

My Lords, as my noble friend Lord Knight said, we should proceed with Report. I am happy to have ...

My Lords, I shall try to address very briefly the points raised by the noble Baroness and other M...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this unplanned and, I think, quite frui...

Moved by

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1: Clause 1, page 2, line 18, at end insert—

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My Lords, I wonder whether the Minister would like to speak.

I thank the noble Lord. With the leave of the House, I hope it will be helpful to your Lordships ...

My Lords, would the Minister also consider coming to this House to make a Statement when the prop...

I am more than happy to take that suggestion back to the department and consider it.

My Lords, I should like more clarity from the Minister about the procedure that will be adopted a...

When I come to speak at the end of this group, I will set out a bit more about our plans for enga...

Following what the noble Lord, Lord Grocott, said, as I understand it, the Minister has said that...

I will respond briefly to my noble friend. On his first point, it will be agreed through the usua...

When the Minister said “one day”, did she mean that, when we are dealing with the replacement cla...

My understanding is that we will have one day for the new clauses, which will be handled under wh...

My Lords—

If I may, I would like to respond to my noble friend’s other points. It is extremely important, g...

I want us to pocket the clauses that the Government are going to give way on. Let us get rid of c...

I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord. In view of the extraordinary and frankly unprecedent...

My Lords, can we just be clear about where we are? We have not yet agreed to consider the Report ...

My Lords, the House did just agree to consider its Report stage. The noble and learned Lord, Lord...

If that is the case, I must have dozed off at some stage. Does it not say “Report be now received...

My Lords, as I think we are debating my Amendment 1, it might be helpful if we carried on, becaus...

My Lords, the amendment proposed is to insert the words on the Marshalled List at Clause 1 on pag...

My Lords, I will speak in a moment to Amendments 4, 7 and 9, but can I go back to the discussion ...

My Lords, it is time that we made some progress. The noble Lord, Lord Knight, proposed that the B...

My Lords, for absolute clarity, I say that we have had the Motion on the House considering Report...

I very much support what the noble and learned Lord, Lord Judge, said. As the Convenor of the Cro...

I apologise to my noble friend but the president of the Association of Directors of Children’s Se...

When I looked through the list of committee members, I could not see anyone representing local au...

My Lords, I will speak briefly, focusing on this group of amendments and to help the House move o...

My Lords, this group of amendments is basically a series of stand part debates and “Let’s get rid...

My Lords, I say very briefly that amid the myriad arguments on this group and, indeed, throughout...

My Lords, I declare an interest as chair of a multi-academy trust, Future Academies, and a truste...

My Lords, having listened to everything that has been said, it is very tempting to rub salt in th...

My Lords, I too thank my noble friend the Minister for listening, I think she has had a torrid ti...

My Lords, may I just point out that Mr Johnson and his colleagues sought no mandate for the subst...

My Lords, I thank the Minister. She has been to one of our conferences with 200 people, and I am ...

My Lords, I start with an apology. Many of your Lordships started by saying that your remarks wou...

My Lords, it has been a very interesting debate, and I am very grateful to the Minister because I...

I think Amendment 4 is in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Addington.

I am so sorry. I have...

Moved by

Lord Judge

4: Leave out Clause 1

I beg to move Amendment 4, and I think the House might be quite pleased to agree to it.

Moved by

Baroness Barran

6: Leave out Clause 2

Member's explanatory statement