Education and Inspections Bill — Keep current proportion of parent governors on governing bodies — rejected — 19 Oct 2006 at 12:10

Baroness Rendell of Babergh voted with the majority (Not-Content).

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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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.

PartyMajority (Not-Content)Minority (Content)Turnout
Bishop1 04.0%
Con73 134.7%
Crossbench18 713.2%
Green0 1100.0%
Lab91 (+2 tell) 042.7%
LDem0 30 (+2 tell)40.5%
UUP0 1100.0%
Total:183 4031.2%

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

Sort by: Name | Party | Vote

NamePartyVote
Lord Elton Con (front bench)aye
Viscount Allenby of MegiddoCrossbenchaye
Baroness Howe of IdlicoteCrossbench (front bench)aye
Lord Hylton Crossbenchaye
Viscount Montgomery of AlameinCrossbenchaye
Lord St John of BletsoCrossbenchaye
Baroness Stern Crossbench (front bench)aye
Lord Wedderburn of CharltonCrossbenchaye

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