PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE RELATING
TO THE REPORT
TUESDAY 12 DECEMBER 2000
Members present:
| Mr Richard Allan | Mr Gordon Marsden
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| Valerie Davey | Mr Stephen O'Brien
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| Mr Michael Foster | Mr Barry Sheerman
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| Dr Evan Harris | Mr Nick St. Aubyn
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| Helen Jones | Mr Stephen Twigg
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Resolved, That, at this
day's sitting, Mr Barry Sheerman do take the Chair of the Committee.—(Helen
Jones.)
The Committee deliberated.
Report from the Education Sub-committee [OFSTED Corporate
Plan 2000] brought up and read.
Ordered, That the Report
be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.
Paragraphs 1 to 13 read and agreed to.
Paragraph 14 read, as follows:
"We consider that, in making this decision,
the Chief Inspector's judgement was flawed. This refusal to give
time to this most important inquiry was not something to be expected
of a senior public servant."
Amendment proposed, in line 1, to leave out from
the word "Chief" to the end of the paragraph and insert
the words "Inspector laid himself open to the criticism that
he did not consider the subject to be particularly important and
thereby compromised his ability to object to any subsequent criticism
made of the Office for which he had responsibility." —(Dr
Evan Harris.)
Question put, that the Amendment be made.
The Committee divided.
| Ayes, 5 | Noes, 2
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| Valerie Davey | Mr Michael Foster
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| Dr Evan Harris | Helen Jones
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| Mr Gordon Marsden |
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| Mr Stephen O'Brien |
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| Mr Stephen Twigg |
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Paragraph, as amended, agreed to.
Paragraph 15 read and agreed to.
Paragraph 16 read, amended, and agreed to.
Paragraphs 17 to 21 read and agreed to.
A paragraph—(Dr Evan Harris)—brought
up, read the first and second time and inserted (now paragraph
22).
Paragraph 22 (now paragraph 23) read, amended, and
agreed to.
Paragraphs 23 to 35 (now paragraphs 24 to 36) read
and agreed to.
Paragraphs 36 to 38 (now paragraphs 37 to 39) read,
amended, and agreed to.
Paragraphs 39 to 43 (now paragraphs 40 to 44) read
and agreed to.
Another paragraph—(Mr Nick St Aubyn)—brought
up, read the first and second time and inserted (now paragraph
45).
Paragraph 44 (now paragraph 46) read, amended, and
agreed to.
Paragraph 45 (now paragraph 47) read and agreed to.
Ordered, That the Minutes
of Proceedings of the Education Sub-committee relating to the
Report be annexed to the Report.
Resolved, That the Report
be the Second Report of the Committee to the House.
Ordered, That the Chairman
do make the Report to the House.
Several Papers were ordered to be appended to the
Minutes of Evidence.
Ordered, That the Appendices
to the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Education Sub-committee
be reported to the House.—(The Chairman.)
Several Papers were ordered to be reported to the
House
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