Education Bill — 4 Dec 2001 at 21:40

Dame Cheryl Gillan MP, Chesham and Amersham voted in the minority (Teller for the Ayes).

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.

It is pleasing that the Second Reading of a Bill that continues our challenge to raise standards takes place on the same day that the United Kingdom achieved its best ever performance on international comparisons of achievement for 15-year-olds. I know that the whole House will congratulate our teachers and young students, who, in the words of The Sun, showed:

I beg to move, To leave out from 'That' to the end of the Question, and to add instead thereof:

'this House, whilst supporting the principle that schools should be given greater freedom to use innovative methods to deliver improvements in standards, declines to give a Second Reading to the Education Bill because it contains nothing that will help schools solve real problems such as falling standards of discipline and the teacher crisis; gives even more power to the Secretary of State instead of devolving power down to schools and head teachers; effectively ends any kind of local democratic control of schools; and because it adds new tiers of bureaucracy to the organisation of education, increasing still further the already overwhelming bureaucratic burden on teachers.'

Question put, That the amendment be made:-

The House divided: Ayes 188, Noes 325.

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Party Summary

Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.

What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.

What are Boths? An MP can vote both aye and no in the same division. The boths page explains this.

What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.

PartyMajority (No)Minority (Aye)BothTurnout
Con0 134 (+2 tell)082.9%
DUP0 4080.0%
Independent0 10100.0%
Lab321 (+2 tell) 0078.6%
LDem0 46088.5%
PC4 00100.0%
UUP0 3050.0%
Total:325 188080.4%

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