Part of Education and Skills Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 1:15 pm on 28 February 2008.
Nick Gibb
Shadow Minister (Education) (Schools)
1:15,
28 February 2008
An Ofsted inspection has judged it a good school, with good behaviour and academic standards.
Will the Minister respond to the point that the institution can use minor corporal punishment if it has parental permission, but that it will no longer be able to do so if it becomes an educational institution, because it will be subject to the rule that corporal punishment cannot be used in schools? At the moment, as a collective of parents, it can do that with their permission. Is that not the drive behind the Clause?
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A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.
Printed in the margin next to each clause is a brief explanatory `side-note' giving details of what the effect of the clause will be.
During the committee stage of a bill, MPs examine these clauses in detail and may introduce new clauses of their own or table amendments to the existing clauses.
When a bill becomes an Act of Parliament, clauses become known as sections.
