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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 01 May 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

"I thank the noble Earl, Lord Effingham, for his kind words, but it is not about me. It is because of our principals, teachers, support staff and children that we are so successful. We have many academy groups that really do well and get fantastic results such as good GCSE …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 23 Jan 2025
Free Schools and Academies

"My Lords, I am very disappointed with this new Bill. When, 34 years ago, Margaret Thatcher and the noble Lord, Lord Baker, came to see me to open a CTC school, I did not know much about them. I went to see the school and thought I could not do …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 12 Jul 2022
Schools Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I thank the Minister. She has been to one of our conferences with 200 people, and I am proud to say that she is coming to our conference in October, where we will have 4,500 teachers, and seeing some of our children. I am really passionate about academies. …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Thu 10 Jan 2019
Free Schools: Educational Standards

"My Lords, I am sure that your Lordships will all agree that every child in this country deserves the best education possible. Before I speak about free schools, I will say a few words about our 47 schools, which include 13 free schools.

Almost one in 40 children in London …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 16 Dec 2015
Education and Adoption Bill

"My Lords, I have some experience of these meetings with parents. I should like to talk about three primary schools: Roke of Croydon, a school which took us 18 months to get approval for, was failing and letting children down. All of you will have heard about the Tottenham school, …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 16 Dec 2015
Education and Adoption Bill

"Perhaps I may say that after two years, in every school we have taken over the lowest grade we have had is “good”. They were failing schools, and I consider that getting “good” in under two years and having 80% of our secondary schools “outstanding” already is a great result. …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 20 Oct 2015
Education and Adoption Bill

"My Lords, I am sure that everyone here wants to give every child in this country an outstanding education. Way back in 1988, when my noble friend Lord Baker asked me to start a CTC in an inner city, I thought about it hard. I realise now that it was …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 29 Jan 2015
Schools: Reforms

"My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Baker for talking me in 1990 into opening a CTC school. That school is the most popular in the country, with 3,500 applicants for 180 places, and it has been found outstanding by Ofsted for the past 12 years, so I thank …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 09 Jun 2014
Queen’s Speech

"It is very important that we get every child in this country a good education because they get only one chance. I thank the late Baroness Thatcher and the noble Lord, Lord Baker, for giving us our first chance of a CTC, at Crystal Palace in 1992. I thank the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 18 Oct 2012
Education: Development of Excellence

"My Lords, I have some experience of the subject having run 13 academies last year and 19 this year. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Baker, for talking me into sponsoring CTCs 20 years ago; the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, for helping me to get eight failing schools through local …..."
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