Education Bill — Control of Regulation — 3 Jul 2002 at 17:35
Lord Berkeley voted in the minority (Not-Content).
The majority Content voters passed an amendment[1] to the Education Bill. The amendment requires central and local government to limit the amount of material that is sent to schools.
However, this amendment was overturned by the House of Commons on 15th July 2002. It then went back to the House of Lords on 23rd July 2002 where Peers eventually settled on a compromise version of the clause.
The main aims of the Education Bill were to[2]:
- Allow schools to exempt themselves from laws which prevented them from innovating. However, this is dependent on the Secretary of State's approval.
- Give good schools the option of qualifying for greater flexibility in the National Curriculum and teachers' pay.
- Allow schools to join together in a federation under a single governing body.
- Further regulate school admissions, exclusions and attendance policies.
- Give the Secretary of State further powers to intervene in failing schools.
- Introduce a new regulatory regime for independent schools.
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- [1] Baroness Blatch, House of Lords, 3 July 2002
- [2] TeacherNet Summary, 17 September 2002
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 is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.Party | Majority (Content) | Minority (Not-Content) | Turnout |
Con | 120 (+2 tell) | 0 | 54.5% |
Crossbench | 12 | 3 | 8.6% |
Lab | 0 | 122 (+2 tell) | 63.3% |
LDem | 0 | 0 | 0.0% |
Total: | 132 | 125 | 39.5% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by party
Lords for which their vote in this division differed from the majority vote of their party. You can see all votes in this division, or every eligible lord who could have voted in this division
Name | Party | Vote |
Lord Craig of Radley | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
Lord Elis-Thomas | Crossbench (front bench) | no |
Lord Patel | Crossbench (front bench) | no |