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These initiatives were driven by Lord Taverne, and are more likely to reflect personal policy preferences.
A bill to provide for bishops of the Church of England no longer to be entitled to membership of the House of Lords
A Bill to entitle students granted discretionary leave to remain to be charged tuition fees and maintenance support on the same basis as home students; and for connected purposes
Lord Taverne has not co-sponsored any Bills in the current parliamentary sitting
Over one third of state funded schools in England are designated as having a religious character, although not all include faith-based oversubscription criteria in their admission arrangements.
The department does not collect information on the number of schools that include faith-based criteria in their admission arrangements, nor the proportion of places allocated on the basis of faith. We have no plans to collect this information or to include this information in school statistics.