Education and Inspections Bill — Keep current proportion of parent governors on governing bodies — rejected — 19 Oct 2006 at 12:10
The majority Not Contents defeated an attempt to amend[1] the Education and Inspections Bill. The amendment would have maintained the current legal proportion of elected parent governors on a school's governing body when a school becomes a foundation, or Trust, school. More information on what it means to be a 'Foundation' or 'Trust' school can be found here.
The main aims of the Education and Inspections Bill were to[2]:
- Allow schools to achieve 'foundation' or 'trust' status - this gives governing bodies greater freedom to manage the school.
- Reaffirm the existing ban on selection by ability and proposes a ban on interviewing.
- Give local authorities greater scope to intervene more quickly in failing schools.
- Ensure local authorities provide free school transport for the poorest families.
- Enable nutritional standards to be applied to all food and drink on school premises.
- Allow staff to discipline children for bad behaviour even outside of school.
- Ensure parents are held responsible for excluded pupils.
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- [1] Baroness Walmsley, House of Lords, 19 October 2006
- [2] BBC Summary of the Education and Inspections Bill, 8 March 2006
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 (Not-Content) | Minority (Content) | Turnout |
| Bishop | 1 | 0 | 4.0% |
| Con | 73 | 1 | 34.4% |
| Green | 0 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 92 (+2 tell) | 0 | 43.1% |
| LDem | 0 | 30 (+2 tell) | 40.5% |
| Other | 2 | 0 | 25.0% |
| UUP | 0 | 2 | 66.7% |
| Crossbench | 18 | 7 | 13.4% |
| Total: | 186 | 41 | 31.4% |
All lords Eligible to Vote - sorted by party
Includes lords who were absent (or abstained) from this vote.