27249 2004-05 899 Harry Barnes 2005-03-10 That this House notes that the Belfast Agreement embraces the need to facilitate and encourage integrated education because an essential aspect of the reconciliation process is the promotion of a culture of tolerance at every level of society; notes, however, that only five per cent. of pupils in Northern Ireland attend integrated schools, which bring together pupils, staff and governors, in roughly equal numbers of Protestants and Catholic pupils, plus other faiths and none, to cultivate self-respect and respect for other people and cultures; applauds the fact that the integrated education movement has made major strides this academic year with the opening of seven new integrated schools and that the number of such schools stands at its highest, thanks to the efforts of dedicated parents, the Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education and the Integrated Education Fund; further notes that 700 pupils were denied access to integrated schools because of a lack of places; notes that President Bush will receive two students from Ulidia Integrated College at the St Patrick's Day event at the White House symbolising US support for the integrated education movement; recognises that integrated education does not provide a panacea for a deeply segregated and divided society but that increasing the integrated education sector will be a massive investment in a non-sectarian and pluralist society, without imposing a single educational model but giving all parents and students a choice; and urges the Government to increase its support to integrated schools as an urgent matter of public policy. Harry Barnes 2005-03-10 Proposed North East Derbyshire Labour Lembit 2005-03-10 Signed Montgomeryshire Liberal Democrat Alistair Carmichael 2005-03-10 Signed Orkney & Shetland Liberal Democrat Peter Bottomley 2005-03-10 Signed Worthing West Conservative Mike Hancock 2005-03-14 Signed Portsmouth South Liberal Democrat Martin Caton 2005-03-15 Signed Gower Labour Paul Flynn 2005-03-15 Signed Newport West Labour Rudi Vis 2005-03-16 Signed Finchley & Golders Green Labour Harold Best 2005-03-16 Signed Leeds North West Labour Ann Cryer 2005-03-16 Signed Keighley Labour Edward O'Hara 2005-03-16 Signed Knowsley South Labour Helen Jackson 2005-03-17 Signed Sheffield, Hillsborough Labour Andrew George 2005-03-17 Signed St Ives Liberal Democrat Parmjit Gill 2005-03-17 Signed Leicester South Liberal Democrat Nigel Jones 2005-03-22 Signed Cheltenham Liberal Democrat Lynne Jones 2005-03-23 Signed Birmingham, Selly Oak Labour Michael Moore 2005-03-23 Signed Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale Liberal Democrat Rob Marris 2005-04-04 Signed Wolverhampton South West Labour John Barrett 2005-04-04 Signed Edinburgh West Liberal Democrat Alan Simpson 2005-04-06 Signed Nottingham South Labour