Education and Inspections Bill — Requirements as to composition of governing bodies — rejected — 24 May 2006 at 14:30
Those voting No rejected a new clause[1] for the Education and Inspections Bill. The Bill gives schools the opportunity of achieving 'foundation' status (see below). This proposed clause, if passed, would have meant foundation governors could not outnumber elected parent governors on schools' governing bodies. 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] Sarah Teather MP, House of Commons, 24 May 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 are Boths? An MP can vote both aye and no in the same division. The boths page explains this.
What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.
| Party | Majority (No) | Minority (Aye) | Both | Turnout |
| Con | 144 | 0 | 0 | 73.8% |
| DUP | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 280 (+2 tell) | 25 | 0 | 87.0% |
| LDem | 0 | 52 (+2 tell) | 0 | 85.7% |
| SDLP | 1 | 0 | 0 | 33.3% |
| UUP | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Total: | 434 | 78 | 0 | 82.7% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by constituency
MPs 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 MP who could have voted in this division
Sort by: Name | Constituency | Party | Vote
| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| David Heyes | Ashton-under-Lyne | Lab | aye |
| Mike Wood | Batley and Spen | Lab | aye |
| Clare Short | Birmingham, Ladywood | whilst Lab | aye |
| Desmond Turner | Brighton, Kemptown | Lab | aye |
| Colin Burgon | Elmet | Lab | aye |
| Ian Davidson | Glasgow South West | Lab | aye |
| Linda Riordan | Halifax | Lab | aye |
| John Martin McDonnell | Hayes and Harlington | Lab | aye |
| Jon Trickett | Hemsworth | Lab | aye |
| Andrew Dismore | Hendon | Lab | aye |
| Jeremy Corbyn | Islington North | Lab | aye |
| George Mudie | Leeds East | Lab | aye |
| Peter Soulsby | Leicester South | Lab | aye |
| Robert Wareing | Liverpool, West Derby | whilst Lab | aye |
| Paul Farrelly | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Lab | aye |
| Paul Flynn | Newport West | Lab | aye |
| David Taylor | North West Leicestershire | Lab | aye |
| Alan Simpson | Nottingham South | Lab | aye |
| Gordon Prentice | Pendle | Lab | aye |
| Paul Truswell | Pudsey | Lab | aye |
| John Grogan | Selby | Lab | aye |
| Clive Betts | Sheffield, Attercliffe | Lab | aye |
| Mark Fisher | Stoke-on-Trent Central | Lab | aye |
| Helen Jones | Warrington North | Lab | aye |
| Ken Purchase | Wolverhampton North East | Lab | aye |