Part I]
Education Bill
4:30 pm
Mr Stephen Timms (Minister of State (School Standards), Department for Education and Skills; East Ham, Labour)
I beg to move,
That the Order of the Committee [11th December] relating to programming as amended by the Order of the Committee [13th December] be amended as follows—
in paragraph (1) ''Thursdays at five minutes to Ten o'clock'' is omitted and ''Thursdays at half-past Nine o'clock'' is inserted; in paragraph (4) after ''time'' there is inserted ''or times''; in sub-paragraph (5) ''on any earlier sitting'' is omitted and ''at any earlier time'' is inserted; in the Table the entries for the 6th to 16th sittings are omitted and the following words inserted:
(afternoon) (evening)
6th Clauses 13 to 17 7 p.m. 6th Clause 18, Schedule 1, Clauses 19 to 24 9.55 p.m. 7th Clauses 25 to 35, Schedule 2, Clauses 36 to 38, Schedule 3 1 p.m. 8th Clauses 39 to 43 7 p.m. 9th Clauses 44 to 48, Schedule 4, Clause 49, Clause 50 11.25 a.m. 10th Clauses 51 to 53, Schedule 5, Clauses 54 to 56, Schedule 6, Clauses 57 to 61 5 p.m. 11th Clauses 62 to 65, Schedule 7, Clause 66, Clause 67, Schedule 8, Clause 68, Schedule 9, Clauses 69 to 71, Schedule 10 1 p.m. 12th Clause 72, Clause 93, Clause 73, Clause 94, Clauses 74 to 76, Clauses 95 to 97, Clause 77, Clause 79, Clause 98, Clause 100, Clause 85, Clause 106, Clause 78, Clause 99, Clause 80, Clause 101, Clause 81, Clause 82, Clause 102, Clause 103, Clause 83, Clause 84, Clause 104, Clause 105, Clauses 86 to 91, Clauses 107 to 112, Clause 92, Clause 113, Clause 114 7 p.m. 13th Clauses 115 to 126, Schedule 12, Clauses 127 to 131 11.25 a.m. 14th Clauses 132 to 144, Schedule 13 5 p.m. 15th Clauses 145 to 148, Schedule 14, Clauses 149 to 151, Schedule 15, Clause 152 1 p.m. 16th Clauses 153 to 170 7 p.m.
I welcome you to the Chair this afternoon, Mr. Griffiths. The resolution of the Programming Sub-Committee, which met after our deliberations this morning, has been circulated. It proposes that we reach clause 17 by 7 pm and clause 24 by 9.55 pm and then makes further changes to reflect that proposal. We have responded to the concern that has been expressed repeatedly that more time is needed for the early part of the Bill. I urge the Committee to support the motion.
Mr. Graham BradyÌ (Altrincham and Sale, West): I beg to move, as an amendment to the motion, after ''Clauses 13 to 17'' leave out ''7 p.m.''.
I do not propose to detain the Committee for long but merely wish to put on the record that, although the Opposition hope that we can complete our discussion up to clause 24 by 9.55 this evening, we believe that the inclusion of a guillotine at clause 17 at 7 o'clock is a needless and unhelpful constraint on the flexibility of our discussion. We support the rest of the motion.