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HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill (Second sitting)My hon. Friend is right. There has to be a fair arbitration process as well, because it may well be that the chamber of commerce does not agree that it is failing, in which case…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I know it is probably an unpopular thing to say of her neck of the woods, but I think the hon. Lady has just made the case for Humberside.30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)Things get a little bit messy. I was nervous when my hon. Friend the Member for Warwick and Leamington mentioned health trusts, because my own health trust, Tameside and Glossop,…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)Absolutely, and the same is true even at the level below that, within a city region. I can speak with experience about my own city region, where there are divergent trends between…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Efford. I echo what my hon. Friend the Member for Warwick and Leamington said about amendment 39, particularly the need for a…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)I will give way in a second.30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Why does it need to specify employers, and only employers? It is a very one-sided view, and it strikes out regional and local authorities, post-16 education providers that are…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)Clearly their lordships thought differently from the hon. Gentleman, and I think he is reading a different Bill. I will read it out to him. It says: “draw on the views of…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)No, we cannot. In other countries where there is a partnership between academia and industry, I have seen that the concepts of products are developed in universities, enterprise…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I would like to know what the avenues are and why they are not in the Bill. If we are talking about developing a genuine partnership and collaboration, and if we are saying, “This…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill (First sitting)Will my hon. Friend give way?30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)It is barmy—there is no other word for it. We are here debating a Skills and Post-16 Education Bill and we are excluding the very bodies that have a direct interest in skills and…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)It absolutely does not seem right. I have spent a lot of time on local government, but the same part of subsection (7)(b) that will be struck out if Government amendment 7 is made…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I completely agree. Every layer of local government has an interest in the health and wellbeing—in the broadest sense—of the population. The best way to improve the health and…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I will give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Warwick and Leamington, because he was first, and then to my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle.30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)My hon. Friend the shadow Minister is absolutely right. When we look at what else is being deleted from clause 1, subsection (7)(b)(ii) talks about “regional and local…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)It not only feels unfair; it is unfair. I get that mayoral combined authorities have specific skills responsibilities devolved to them, so clearly the level of input from a…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I do not want to prolong the debate on this group, but the Minister, in the discussion on the previous group, sought to assure the Committee that the approach was genuinely…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)I can second-guess where the Minister is going and I am grateful to him for giving way, but I was merely pointing out that the piece of legislation that permits combined…30 Nov 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [ Lords ] (First sitting)My hon. Friend must have eyes in the back of his head, because that was pretty much the next point that I wanted to make. It all hinges on the term “due consideration”. We are…30 Nov 2021