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HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Eleventh sitting)Does the adjudicator also have a say in allowing a school to open?06 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Twelfth sitting)I know! [ Laughter. ]06 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Twelfth sitting)I rise to speak to amendment 48, which stands in the name of the hon. Member for Twickenham. There are two main reasons people seek to limit school admissions on the basis of…06 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Twelfth sitting)I have never been so warmly welcomed. [ Laughter .] We talked a few sittings ago about the NHS number and the database of children, and there are a lot of wide-open questions…06 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Twelfth sitting)Before the hon. Lady corrects me, I did not say she was doing that.06 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Eleventh sitting)No, I am asking directly: could the adjudicator stop a new school opening on the grounds that we have tasked the adjudicator with making sure that there is not excess capacity in…06 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Twelfth sitting)I want to ask the Minister about two things. First, he talks about the disadvantage gap widening at the present time. Entirely coincidentally, I happen to have the numbers on key…06 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. I do mean these questions genuinely, in the spirit of line-by-line scrutiny of the Bill and trying to ascertain unintended…06 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Twelfth sitting)Will the Minister allow me?06 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Eleventh sitting)It may help if I say why I asked the question. The adjudicator will be worrying, “I need to make sure that a school over here isn’t creating unfairness or making another school…06 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)Now we are on to modern methods of construction: scaffolding or a floor? I do not know. I will give way to the hon. Member for Bournemouth East, then I promise I will move on.04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)Bless the hon. Gentleman for saying I am engaging, but I am obviously not that engaging, because I spent the first three minutes explaining why the national curriculum is the core…04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)As my hon. Friend the Member for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston has mentioned, it has long been the case that some schools have not had to follow the national curriculum. Even…04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)Fortnight.04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)Sort of. It is not really a floor or a ceiling at the moment; it is a very loose framework that says, “These are the things at key stages 1 to 4 that one should cover.” It is not…04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)I have a genuine question, as they say on Twitter. Quite a lot of teachers and school leaders have asked me, what is the difference between people joining a RISE team and national…04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)For clarification, I meant that if a trust or a school had not followed its own complaints procedure and the DFE needed to intervene, that would result in an increase in the…04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)Clause 43 will give the Secretary of State a power to direct specific actions to comply with duties, rather than just specifying what those duties are. That is what brings it into…04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Ninth sitting)I did not realise we were going to spend today talking about football.04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Ninth sitting)Colleagues and friends, forgive me; it happens all the time in clubs and in schools. It happens in after-school football clubs and before-school football clubs. If the club starts…04 Feb 2025