Part of Education and Skills Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 1:00 pm on 28 February 2008.
Nick Gibb
Shadow Minister (Education) (Schools)
1:00,
28 February 2008
Yes, because they are schools. Parents who get together because they want to home educate their children—which they are entitled to do under the law—do not wish those institutions to become schools with all the expense that that would entail.
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.
