Lords procedures require that the clauses will be debated - and Lord Lucas's aim is toget some kind of response to the internet issues raised by the new system.
It has been a stated aim of successive governments toget the number of exclusions down and figures published by the Department for Education (DfE) show that since 1997 permanent exclusions from schools in England have more than halved from 12, 300 to 5, 740.
How else to explain how he could slap his name on the technology-heavy AIM Dent Demographic Trends fund in June 1999, just in time toget clobbered by the tech collapse?
And in early May, the Vice President will begin regular meetings with leaders in both parties with the aim of reaching a final agreement on a plan to reduce the deficit and get it done by the end of June.