Weekly Debates - Westminster.

The article provides information on Westminster reports on debates in the British House of Commons and the House of Lords from November, 3 to 7, 2003. The debate titled, Children's Play, in Westminster Hall covered a range of issues and Government departments around child's play, this report focuses on those aspects of the debate that concerned education. The debate was opened by Paddy Tipping, the Labour MP for Sherwood in Nottinghamshire. The debate on the schools in Hackney, centered on the decision of Labour MP for Diane Abbott, to send her child to the independent City of London school rather than a state school in her own constituency. Junior Education & Skills Ministers Ivan Lewis introduced a short debate on vocational education in Government time. The debate followed the publication earlier in the year of the White Papers on skills and on higher education.