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Evaluating Academies

EDM number 1856 in 2006-07, proposed by Austin Mitchell on 05/07/2007.

That this House is concerned at the enormous potential expenditure in taking the academy programme to 400 schools with its heavy subsidies to miscellaneous private sponsors provided on the basis of unproven, possibly unjustified, assumptions about resulting improvements to education in disadvantaged areas; urges the establishment of an independent inquiry to evaluate the performance of academies, compared to modernised state schools, to assess whether any improvements are more than a temporary Hawthorne effect, to assess the effects of academies on neighbouring schools, and the overall performance of the education authority, to examine the value for money of academies as opposed to spending the same sums on secondary schools more generally, and to look at ways to merge the two systems, academies and local authority schools, in order to ensure the unified development of the system and avoid further divisions in public education.

This motion has been signed by a total of 55 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Austin Mitchell05/07/2007Great GrimsbyLabourProposed
Ian Gibson09/07/2007Norwich NorthLabourSeconded
Paul Holmes09/07/2007ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSeconded
Robert Wareing09/07/2007Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSeconded
David Taylor09/07/2007North West LeicestershireLabourSeconded
David Drew09/07/2007StroudLabourSeconded
Glenda Jackson10/07/2007Hampstead and HighgateLabourSigned
Lynne Jones10/07/2007Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Martin Caton10/07/2007GowerLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn10/07/2007Islington NorthLabourSigned
Mike Hancock10/07/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Dai Davies10/07/2007Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Colin Burgon11/07/2007ElmetLabourSigned
Rudi Vis11/07/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Andrew George11/07/2007St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Ronnie Campbell11/07/2007Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Colin Breed11/07/2007South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Kelvin Hopkins11/07/2007Luton NorthLabourSigned
Alan Simpson12/07/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Vincent Cable12/07/2007TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Ann Cryer12/07/2007KeighleyLabourSigned
John Pugh16/07/2007SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Oaten16/07/2007WinchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Colin Challen16/07/2007Morley and RothwellLabourSigned
Frank Dobson16/07/2007Holborn and St PancrasLabourSigned
Mark Hunter16/07/2007CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Clapham17/07/2007Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
Keith Vaz17/07/2007Leicester EastLabourSigned
Bill Etherington17/07/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Marsha Singh17/07/2007Bradford WestLabourSigned
Harry Cohen17/07/2007Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Ken Purchase18/07/2007Wolverhampton North EastLabourSigned
George Mudie18/07/2007Leeds EastLabourSigned
Phil Willis18/07/2007Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
John Leech18/07/2007Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Brian Jenkins19/07/2007TamworthLabourSigned
Diane Abbott19/07/2007Hackney North and Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
Clive Betts19/07/2007Sheffield, AttercliffeLabourSigned
John Hemming19/07/2007Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Stunell23/07/2007Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
John Austin23/07/2007Erith and ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Kate Hoey23/07/2007VauxhallLabourSigned
David Heyes23/07/2007Ashton-under-LyneLabourSigned
Gordon Prentice24/07/2007PendleLabourSigned
Joan Humble24/07/2007Blackpool North and FleetwoodLabourSigned
Frank Cook24/07/2007Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff24/07/2007Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small HeathLabourSigned
Mike Wood24/07/2007Batley and SpenLabourSigned
Bob Russell25/07/2007ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell25/07/2007Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Paul Flynn08/10/2007Newport WestLabourSigned
Joan Walley08/10/2007Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Linda Riordan08/10/2007HalifaxLabourSigned
Jennifer Willott08/10/2007Cardiff CentralLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Rowen29/10/2007RochdaleLiberal DemocratSigned

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