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HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendments 164B, 164C, 167A, 170A, 170B, 175ZD and 175ZE in my name. All these amendments are rooted in one concern, and we have had a lot of debate…28 Jan 2026HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendment 148C and the other amendments in my name in this group: Amendments 157A, 161B, 161C, 164A, 175ZF and 254. Together, they address the…28 Jan 2026HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I shall speak to the amendments in my name in this group, namely Amendments 148A, 148B, 148D, 148E, 153A, 155A, 161D and 174A. Together, they are concerned with one…28 Jan 2026HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 161A, 175ZA, 175ZB and 175ZC in my name. These amendments sit in a part of the Bill that would be felt most sharply not in Whitehall but in…28 Jan 2026HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI welcome this timely provision of information for families. I speak for myself, but Peers here have also spoken about the need for exam access and would not want to burden state…28 Jan 2026HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendment 502YP, which stands in my name. This amendment goes to the heart of how government power is exercised in the Bill. It would require the…18 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, my Amendment 502YQ is mainly to probe the Government’s intention in relation to their own use of data regarding this Bill. This amendment addresses an issue that has…18 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 502YN and 502YR, which stand in my name. These amendments are bound by a common theme: that the powers we create in this Bill must be…18 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI thank the Minister. On my understanding, having spoken to those who know about the workings of the Regulatory Policy Committee, which the Minister said greenlit the Bill, in the…18 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillJust to clarify, the words I used were, “before it was brought before this House”. The reason it has had so many days of scrutiny is because it was not drafted in a way that was…18 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I rise in support of Amendment 499, tabled by my noble friend Lord Holmes of Richmond, which would require the Secretary of State to issue a statutory attendance code of…10 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill10 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I rise to speak in support of Amendments 426D and 426E tabled in my name. These amendments, though modest in scope, address two fundamental issues in the way that our…10 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI am grateful to the Minister for her response and look forward to this letter. I am also grateful to the department for the correspondence that I and other noble Peers received…10 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendment 212 and the related amendment to Clause 30. Taken together, these amendments aim to restore vital balance and proportion to the question of…03 Jul 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendments 230, 254, 323 to 326 and 423, all of which stand in my name. The creation of a register, though flawed, is fundamentally intended to identify…03 Jul 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I declare an interest as a parent of home-educated children. I take this opportunity to echo the earlier tributes to the many home-educating families who have worked so…03 Jul 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillPerhaps I might build on that point. There seems to be a lot of conflation in this debate between home education and children who are missing education or invisible. It seems that…03 Jul 2025