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HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)I am afraid that the Minister is the one making the prediction. It is her consultation document that says that the Government expect that twice as many schools will go through…04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)For all the reasons we have just rehearsed, I am keen to push amendment 88. Ministers may well vote against it today, but I hope that later on in the process they will listen to…04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)The Minister mentions a trust that is not complying with its legal duties; I do not think we would have a problem with addressing that, but that is not what is drafted here. As…04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)rose—04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)I literally just read out the Prime Minister’s own words. They are not my words. If he did not want to say them, he did not have to say them. I want to press the Minister, because…04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)rose —04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)It was the Prime Minister’s words, not mine.04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)We have been on quite a journey on this clause. At the Education Committee on 15 January, the Secretary of State said that critics of the Bill were confused. She said: “It has…04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)I am keen to press the amendment. Question put, That the amendment be made.04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)How many will go through academisation?04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)I am keen to get a piece of information that the Government have not properly put into the public domain. They clearly know how many schools they expect to go through…04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Ninth sitting)Sir Martyn Oliver gave us a good example of how the current freedoms are used on our first day of evidence. He said: “In the past, I have brought in professional sportspeople to…04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)I will be quite brief. Clauses 47 to 50 are all of a piece, though it is the last of them, clause 50, that we have the greatest concerns about. In the interest of time, I will…04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)It is generous of the Minister to give way. To address the point that I raised in my speech, does she agree that the principle of a floor but no ceiling should apply to school…04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)I am trying to get the Minister to de-conflate her own statistics. The Government want to present the statistic in a deliberately conflated way and I am trying to get it…04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)Sir Christopher, you are a superb Chairman. You are also a very kind and thoughtful one for those of us who are not quick enough on the draw. I will not make detailed comments…04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Tenth sitting)Will the hon. Lady give way?04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Ninth sitting)Is that not also the case for 16-to-19 academies already? I do not understand why they have to be exempted in the Bill, but non-16-to-19 academies are not. Surely they also have…04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Ninth sitting)I could pick this concern up in our next debate, on clause 31, but a related issue is linked to my concerns about this clause, so I will give the Minister a moment to reply. He…04 Feb 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Ninth sitting)We thought that it was unintentional that academies are being brought into this new system of regulation. From the Minister’s comments, it is clearly intentional. This is triple…04 Feb 2025