Education and Inspections Bill — IGCSE for state schools — rejected — 24 Oct 2006 at 18:00
The majority Not-Contents rejected an amendment to the Education and Inspections Bill to permit state schools to use the IGCSE in English, Maths and Science. However, the amendment was defeated.
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 Buscombe, House of Lords, 24 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 |
| Con | 0 | 109 (+2 tell) | 51.6% |
| Green | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Ind Lab | 0 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 134 (+2 tell) | 0 | 62.4% |
| LDem | 47 | 0 | 59.5% |
| UUP | 3 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Crossbench | 9 | 12 | 11.2% |
| Total: | 194 | 122 | 45.5% |
All lords Eligible to Vote - sorted by party
Includes lords who were absent (or abstained) from this vote.