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HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for the answer she gave on my amendment. I had a lot of sympathy for Amendment 149, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Storey. If we…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, it seems delightful that the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, who, with the rest of us, objected to the Henry VIII powers in the earlier parts of the Bill, should be asking…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, in moving Amendment 112A, I shall speak to my other amendments in this group. The focus of the group is the relationship between local authorities and home educators,…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend for those replies. I shall read them in Hansard and return to her if I have any points of detail to make. I very much agree with my…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I was not trying to hurry my noble friend; I was just saying this is clearly quite important. Picking up on other points made in the debate, I am absolutely delighted…22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]22 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]22 Jun 2022HANSARDProduct Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I would be grateful if my noble friend included me in his replies and letters. Is he aware of the lamentable performance of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs when it…21 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful for that. Perhaps we will get to the stage when there is a single identifier for a school. At least three different numbers are used by the Department for…20 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, just to pick up briefly on what—20 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]20 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, in moving Amendment 97A I shall speak also to the other amendments in my name in this group. The substantive amendments in the group concern the completeness of the…20 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend for her answers to my amendment. By and large, she has answered extremely well, and I thank her for that. I would like to press her…20 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I have a few amendments in this group. Amendment 97E is an echo of Amendment 101B and may well have already been answered. Amendments 98A, 101A and 104A seek to offer a…20 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, might I just drop in before the noble Lord, Lord Knight? My noble friend is not right in saying that academies currently provide all the data required on admissions. I…13 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Knight, is right about getting Ofsted into multi-academy trusts. It would make a great difference to how parents are able to interact with the…13 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I too have an amendment in this group, but first, in response to the noble Lord, Lord Knight, I very much share his vision of taking local authorities to the point where…13 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]I have a great deal of sympathy for what the noble Baroness has just said. The phrase that comes to my mind is, “Better the devil you know”—if I am allowed to refer to the Church…13 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend the Minister for her response. I think that it merely illustrates how far apart we are on the appropriateness of the structure of this…08 Jun 2022HANSARDSchools Bill [HL]My Lords, I am puzzled about how the system proposed in the Bill produces good schools. I have spent the past 30 years involved with the Good Schools Guide . Schools die mostly…08 Jun 2022