Mr Don Touhig (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Welsh Office; Islwyn, Labour/Co-operative)

I beg to move amendment No. 289, in page 53, leave out line 10 and insert—

''(a) design and technology,

(b) information and communication technology,''.

Mr Peter Pike (Burnley, Labour)

With this we may take Government amendment No. 290.

Mr Don Touhig (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Welsh Office; Islwyn, Labour/Co-operative)

I hope that hon. Members will welcome a small but helpful clarification that is the purpose of amendments Nos. 289 and 290. Clauses 80 and 81 refer to the single subject of ''technology'', which has not existed within the national curriculum in England for approximately six years. Amendments Nos. 289 and 290 simply replace those references with the two subjects that do exist within the curriculum—''design and technology'' and ''information and communication technology''. The legislation works in its present form, but sustaining the notion that there is a national curriculum subject called ''technology'' is seen by many to be unhelpful—hence the amendments.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 80, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.

Clause 101 ordered to stand part of the Bill.