Education and Inspections Bill — Local Authorities to encourage 'Foundation' status — rejected — 17 Oct 2006 at 16:49
The majority Not Content voters overturned an attempt to amend[1] the Education and Inspections Bill. This amendment would have required Local Authorities to encourage all schools to become foundation, voluntary or foundation special schools, and to acquire a foundation (i.e., become Trust schools). 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 Buscombe, House of Lords, 17 October 2006
- [2] BBC Summary of the Education and Inspections Bill, 8 March 2006
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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.| Party | Majority (Not-Content) | Minority (Content) | Turnout |
| Bishop | 4 | 0 | 16.0% |
| Con | 1 | 80 (+2 tell) | 39.0% |
| Crossbench | 26 | 14 | 20.9% |
| DUP | 0 | 1 | 33.3% |
| Independent Labour | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 148 (+2 tell) | 0 | 68.8% |
| LDem | 43 | 0 | 54.4% |
| Total: | 223 | 95 | 44.1% |
All lords Eligible to Vote - sorted by party
Includes lords who were absent (or abstained) from this vote.