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Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill — Committee (1st Day) (16 Jun 2009)

Baroness Walmsley: ...of the amendment, I should point out that our support for Amendment 1 did not preclude this group of amendments, simply because that amendment was so broadly drawn. Had the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, said in his proposed subsection (a) that the person had to be employed and paid by an employer, we may not have been able to support it, but since it said, "an agreement with an employer to train...

Address in Reply to Her Majesty's Most Gracious Speech (25 May 2005)

Baroness Walmsley: ...real power in the education of their children. I will not say much about the proposal to allow parents more power to trigger an Ofsted inspection, except that we will need safeguards against witch hunts by a small group of parents of a head teacher whose methods they do not like. The idea that Ofsted should have the power to close a school is certainly an error. It is another step in the...

Science and Treaties (S&T Report) (3 Feb 2005)

Baroness Walmsley: ...evidence. Persuading other nations to sign treaties is important, but ensuring that the ongoing monitoring and maintenance of treaties is done properly is just as vital, as the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, mentioned. Unfortunately, when we visited the Antarctic we discovered some concern about the resources needed for the international advisory panel of scientists who advise the conference of...

Education Bill [HL] (13 Jan 2005)

Baroness Walmsley: ...the course of an inspection. I welcome the statement of the Minister that heads will keep the discretion to have a meeting with head teachers, but if it is not in statute, as the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, pointed out, there may well be very dominant heads who really do not want to encourage contact between the inspector and the parents and they will not use that discretion to have a meeting....

Education Bill [HL] (11 Jan 2005)

Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, before commenting on my amendment, which started this group, I shall say a word about the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, with which I have an enormous amount of sympathy. My focus on out-of-classroom learning is not only on physical education and participation in sport, but also on field studies in my own subject, biology. I think that such study has suffered over the years...

Commons Amendment (10 Nov 2004)

Baroness Walmsley: ...'s Commissioners to make them as good as, they believe, the new Children's Commissioner will be? That would be the logical consequence of what the Minister said tonight. To the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, I say that there is nothing rhetorical about rights. It is a practical matter. He said that the commissioner would have to judge whether a particular case needed to be looked into. The...

Hunting Bill (16 Sep 2003)

Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, I rise to support a complete ban on hunting. For me it is a conscience issue, and I trust that those who do not agree with me will respect that, as I do their different views. I would say to some earlier speakers in your Lordships' House today that to call those of us who support this Bill unprincipled, bigoted, vindictive, illiberal, zealots and class prejudiced is nonsense,...

Hunting Bill (16 Sep 2003)

Baroness Walmsley: My Lords, that does not detract from my other arguments. The Burns report concluded that, "the overall contribution of traditional fox-hunting, within the overall control techniques involving dogs, is almost certainly insignificant in terms of the management of the fox population as a whole". Hunting is certainly not humane as it does not render the animal insensitive to pain as soon as...

Education Bill (26 Jun 2002)

Baroness Walmsley: ...to change it. Since we debated these amendments a few weeks ago, we have had a Question in your Lordships' House about the health of children in which I drew the attention of the noble Lord, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, to the fact that the number of new diagnoses of HIV/AIDS in this country doubled during the last five-year period for which I could find statistics. A high percentage of these...

Hunting Bill (12 Mar 2001)

Baroness Walmsley: ...post offices and the inadequacy of rural transport. They are matters about which I would have preferred to speak, even to march on. However, the Countryside Alliance has been hijacked by the pro-hunting lobby. That has made it difficult for people like me to support it. The theme of my contribution to the debate is "drawing the line". My position is that I am convinced that the hunting of...