Education Bill — Requirements to be Registered with General Teaching Council — rejected — 2 Mar 2005 at 18:14
The majority Not-Content voters defeated an amendment[1] to the Education Bill. The amendment introduces a new clause that would have required academies, city technology colleges and city colleges for the technology of the arts to only employ teachers registered with the General Teaching Council. However, it was defeated.
The main aims of the Education Bill 2005 were to[2]:
- Change the way schools are inspected by OFSTED
- Change the role of the Teacher Training Agency
- Introduce three-year budgets for schools
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- [1] Baroness Walmsley, House of Lords, 2 March 2005
- [2] Wikipedia entry, Retrieved on 2010-01-31
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 | 1 | 8.0% |
| Con | 0 | 64 | 30.6% |
| Crossbench | 8 | 5 | 7.3% |
| Lab | 112 (+2 tell) | 0 | 55.3% |
| LDem | 0 | 45 (+2 tell) | 68.1% |
| Total: | 121 | 115 | 35.0% |
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 |
| Viscount Craigavon | Crossbench (front bench) | aye |
| Baroness Howe of Idlicote | Crossbench | aye |
| Lord Palmer | Crossbench (front bench) | aye |
| Lord Thomas of Swynnerton | Crossbench | aye |
| Lord Walpole | Crossbench | aye |