Clause 82 - Power to alter or remove requirements for the fourth key stage
Education Bill
5:45 pm
Mr Phil Willis (Harrogate and Knaresborough, Liberal Democrat)
The Minister will recognise that, if the Secretary of State grants a school those powers to innovate under part 1 and it gets on with it, an order must be made if the school wants to change the
requirement for a national curriculum under clause 82. That would mean that each school that wanted to innovate in respect of its curriculum, whether or not it had earned autonomy, would have to have an order passed through the House. That seems incredibly cumbersome. However, it may not be what the Government intend and I may be misinterpreting such matters because I am not as informed as the Minister.