Vardy Foundation

EDM number 1124 in 2002-03, proposed by Jenny Tonge on 01/05/2003.

That this House notes that the Vardy Foundation is already being subsidised to run independent schools in Gateshead and Middlesbrough at 100 per cent. public expense (after an initial contribution from the sponsor towards capital costs); further notes that it is seeking to set up similar publically funded academies in Doncaster, Leeds, Newcastle, Sunderland and Hull; and calls on the Secretary of State for Education to decline to enter any further agreements with the Vardy Foundation or similar would-be sponsors in respect of new academies unless the sponsors undertake not to operate discriminatory policies and practices and to confine the teaching of creationism to religious education classes.

This motion has been signed by a total of 36 MPs.