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HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I will briefly come in here. My interest in home education has been based around special educational needs. It is a fact that in the past—I hope that this is…20 Jun 2022HANSARDHouses of Parliament: Co-locationMy Lords, when you have the job of summing up for your party in a debate like this, you think, “Do I have an original point?” You put one or two up there, and it is like watching…16 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]On that senior lead, if you have one person who knows something about this, they cannot get round the whole school, and there is a process by which you have to get the child in…15 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I will take a few moments to support my noble friend. The major point she has made is that if you do not measure something, it does not happen. It is also the case—as we…15 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I will just follow up on that. It would be helpful if we could get some clarity on what else is coming through, if not that process. It is not the Minister’s fault, but…15 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]I have listened to what the Minister has said, having not joined in on the debate on this amendment before. Are we saying that specialist schools which stand out from the normal…15 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, it might be helpful to point out that my amendment was inspired by the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee report, which talks about Clause 3 and its…13 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, it is really something for me to say that I agree with most of the noble Lords opposite on this. It is a very odd Bill and a very odd process that we are going through…13 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, it is something running through this debate; there has been discussion on it. I hope we can find this out. I assumed that the Minister would have been briefed.13 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]13 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, my degree of fellow feeling for the Minister is growing, as it was when the noble Lord, Lord Knight, was talking, because of the amount of nodding and smiling in…13 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, when we come back to this, we come back to our old friend the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee and its second report of the 2022-23 Session. The report…13 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, can the Minister clarify how special educational needs fits into this picture? I know the Government are currently looking at this area, but it is one that has led to…13 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, really, this is something of a hangover from day one—something I think the noble Baroness, understandably, would best like forgotten. I am still not clear why, when…13 Jun 2022HANSARDHealth Promotion Bill [HL]My Lords, I declare my membership of the all-party group and my interests in sport generally, particularly in rugby union, being a trustee of the Atlas Foundation and secretary…09 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, that was an interesting and full answer, but one that did not in any way allay my fears. The Minister said that this Government have no intention of doing it. Let me put…08 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]I do remember that, but as a hereditary Peer I am probably more familiar than the noble Lord with the threat of abolition. That whetted axe been swinging around my head for a good…08 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]08 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, the inspiration for this amendment, I am afraid, is much of what we have already heard about, which is the idea that the Government are basically going to change…08 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]I am trying to get an assurance that there is a way to make sure that, if a new regulation is put forward, it cannot override. It is a pity that the noble Lord, Lord Agnew, is not…08 Jun 2022