Education and Inspections Bill
10:30 am
Time for conclusion of proceedings
Clauses 42 and 43; new Clauses and new Schedules relating to school admissions; Clause 44; Schedule 5; Clause 45; remaining new Clauses and new Schedules relating to Part 3; Clauses 46 to 57; Schedule 6; Clause 58; Schedule 7; Clauses 59 and 60; new Clauses and new Schedules relating to part 4.
1.00 p.m. on Tuesday 9th May.
Clauses 61 and 62; new Clauses and new Schedules relating to Part 5; Clauses 63 and 64; Schedule 8; Clause 65; Schedule 9; Clauses 66 to 72; Schedule 10; new Clauses and new Schedules relating to travel to schools and other places where education or training is received.
9.55 p.m. on Tuesday 9th May.
Clauses 73 and 74; remaining new Clauses and new Schedules relating to Part 6; Clauses 75 to 83.
8.00 p.m. on Wednesday 10th May.
Clauses 84 to 97; new Clauses and new Schedules relating to Part 7.
10.25 a.m. on Thursday 11th May.
Clauses 98 to 101; Schedules 11 and 12; Clauses 102 to 135; Schedule 13; Clauses 136 to 142; Schedule 14; Clause 143; Schedule 15; Clause 144; new Clauses and new Schedules relating to Part 8; Clauses 145 and 146; Schedule 16; Clauses 147 to 151; Schedule 17; Clauses 152 and 153; remaining new Clauses; remaining new Schedules; Clauses 154 to 160; Schedule 18; Clauses 161 to 167; remaining proceedings on the Bill.
4.00 p.m. on Thursday 11th May.
It is a pleasure to be back under your stewardship, Mr. Cook. I hope that this programme motion will help us to ensure proper and full scrutiny of the remaining clauses of the Bill. It gives us an extra nine hours of scrutiny. At the start of the Committee proceedings I welcomed my right hon. Friend the Member for Redditch (Jacqui Smith), the former Minister for Schools, who is now the Secretary to the Treasury. I praised her talents as captain and top goal scorer for the Labour team on this Committee. I am pleased to say that her talents have been recognised by the manager, who has quite rightly promoted her from the championship to the premier league. I should like to take the opportunity to record my thanks and those of the entire Committee for her superb contribution to our deliberations to date.
Before welcoming my right hon. Friend’s replacement to these Benches, I want to acknowledge another member of the team whose talents have also been rightfully recognised. Owing to an injury tomy hon. Friend the Member for Brigg and Goole(Mr. Cawsey), my hon. Friend the Member for Chatham and Aylesford (Jonathan Shaw) played as a good substitute last week. He has now been promoted to be a full-time, paid player on the Front Bench.
You may have wondered, Mr. Cook, how our team would cope with the promotion of two of our key players. Where would we find a replacement with the required intellect, charm, experience, knowledge and eloquence? Failing to find such a person, but following his dazzling performance in the conference league of rural policy in DEFRA, I am delighted to welcome to the Committee my hon. Friend the Member for South Dorset (Jim Knight). He has been justly rewarded with the captaincy of our team. Finally—I like to offer little-known facts about members of the Committee—I point out that my hon. Friend is a keen tennis player. Like me, he is member of the Lords and Commons tennis club. We have played doubles together. I look forward on this occasion to being Tim Henman to his Andy Murray.