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Written Answers — Justice: Joint Advisory Committee for Qualifications Approval: Freedom of Information (12 Nov 2009)

Nick Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will designate the Joint Advisory Committee for Qualifications Approval as a public authority under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Written Answers — Children, Schools and Families: Joint Advisory Committee for Qualifications Approval: Finance (12 Nov 2009)

Nick Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the budget of the Joint Advisory Committee for Qualifications Approval is in 2009-10.

Bill Presented: Clause 126 — General Duties (11 Nov 2009)

Nick Gibb: I want to test the House's opinion on amendment (a).

Bill Presented: Clause 75 — Academy arrangements (11 Nov 2009)

Nick Gibb: My experience of speaking to academy providers is that the problems they have faced over the past five or 10 years have come mostly from Labour authorities.

Bill Presented: Clause 75 — Academy arrangements (11 Nov 2009)

Nick Gibb: Dr. Moynihan was saying that he was in favour of an agency, but not this agency. He does not want the YPLA to be the body overseeing the academies movement.

Bill Presented: Clause 75 — Academy arrangements (11 Nov 2009)

Nick Gibb: When we debated the issue in Committee, I tabled an amendment to enable a different organisation to be established to run the academies. The question is whether the academies should be run from within the Department or whether they should be overseen by a stand-alone non-departmental public body. There are arguments on both sides. We are considering them, and the hon. Gentleman will be the...

Bill Presented: Clause 75 — Academy arrangements (11 Nov 2009)

Nick Gibb: You are quite right, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I mean the amendment to Lords amendment 178. It does what I have just described, however. The minority members of the YPLA could then deal with the YPLA's responsibilities. At least our amendment would enable us to be sure that this body would understand the issues facing academies, and would be sympathetic to them. It is not a matter of one sector...

Bill Presented: Clause 75 — Academy arrangements (11 Nov 2009)

Nick Gibb: Does that mean that, before the Bill went to the other place, it was the Government's intention to allow the YPLA to enter into funding agreements with new academies?

Bill Presented: Clause 75 — Academy arrangements (11 Nov 2009)

Nick Gibb: During the Bill's time in the other place, a number of amendments were tabled, as the Minister has explained, to the clauses relating to the YPLA, but none of them has answered our fundamental concern about its suitability to carry out academy arrangements—that is, for the YPLA to be used as the oversight body for academies. This is very important. The Government have amended clause 75...

Bill Presented: Clause 75 — Academy arrangements (11 Nov 2009)

Nick Gibb: Our advice goes way beyond local authorities; it goes to livery companies, parent groups, co-operative teachers, educational foundations and Church groups that want to set up a school. If there is a Conservative Government after the next election, we will make it much easier for any of those groups to set up schools in any area they choose—regardless of the attitude of the local authority.

Bill Presented: Clause 75 — Academy arrangements (11 Nov 2009)

Nick Gibb: I am quite sure that all local authorities in this country, whether they be Conservative authorities or not, work closely with the Government, but the thrust of Conservative policy on this issue is very clear to all local authorities. It is that the impetus for creating a new academy will come from those groups that I have identified. That is where the impetus will come from, and a...

Bill Presented: Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill (11 Nov 2009)

Nick Gibb: May I put the Minister out of his misery? What we want to do—what our policy says we would like to do—is to have as much information as possible made available to parents about the results that a school produces. Whatever those qualifications are, they should be published by the school to give parents the maximum information.

Written Answers — Church Commissioners: Church Commissioners: Land (10 Nov 2009)

Nick Gibb: To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners pursuant to the answer of 21 October 2009, Official Report, column 1442W, on Church Commissioners: land, what criteria govern decisions by the Church Commissioners to transfer land from the rural let land portfolio to the rural strategic land portfolio.

Written Answers — Church Commissioners: Church Commissioners: Land (10 Nov 2009)

Nick Gibb: To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners pursuant to the answer of 21 October 2009, Official Report, column 1442W, on Church Commissioners: land, what the location is of each parcel of land transferred from the rural let land portfolio in each of the last five years.

Written Answers — Church Commissioners: Church Commissioners: Land (10 Nov 2009)

Nick Gibb: To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners pursuant to the answer of 21 October 2009, Official Report, column 1441-42W, on Church Commissioners: land, which sites are included in the Church Commissioners' strategic land portfolio.

Written Answers — Church Commissioners: Church Commissioners: Land (10 Nov 2009)

Nick Gibb: To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners pursuant to the answer of 15 October 2009, Official Report, column 997W, on departmental land, how many files the Church Commissioners store (a) on-site and (b) off- site; and which firm provides the off-site ordering services to the Church Commissioners.

Written Answers — Church Commissioners: Church Commissioners: Land (10 Nov 2009)

Nick Gibb: To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners what legal advisers the Church Commissioners retain in respect of the sale and development of land.

Written Answers — Church Commissioners: Church Commissioners: Land (10 Nov 2009)

Nick Gibb: To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners how much the Church Commissioners spent on legal services relating to the sale of land in each of the last five years.

Written Answers — Church Commissioners: Church Commissioners: Land (10 Nov 2009)

Nick Gibb: To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners what the policy of the Church Commissioners is on the consultation of residents close to land developments proposed by the Church Commissioners.

Written Answers — Church Commissioners: Church Commissioners: Land (10 Nov 2009)

Nick Gibb: To ask the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, representing the Church Commissioners how much the Church Commissioners have spent on legal services in relation to the proposed development of land to the west of Chalcraft Lane in Bognor Regis.