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HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]Sorry, this group is for my noble friend Lady Chisholm. Amendment 5321 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, Amendment 35 is in my name. I am pleased to bring this amendment to the House. The Government believe strongly that young people and adults, at all stages of their…21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]Before the noble Lord sits down, I am genuinely concerned that we have a fundamental understanding of the number of encounters that the two amendments seek to deliver. The…21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]If my noble friend will allow me to finish, I will come on to talk about some of the wider issues—particularly in relation to funding, on which I know he is a great expert—further…21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]I am sorry; I thought that I was clear in my remarks. We are already delivering the policy and therefore do not believe that it is necessary to have it in the Bill.21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My noble friend is quite within his rights to press me and the Government as hard as he sees fit, but I have set out the Government’s position as best as I can at this stage.…21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]I thank my noble friend for her incredibly kind comments earlier about how quickly I have picked up this brief. I cannot confidently respond further than I did in my response to…21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, I once again thank my noble friend for his amendment and his commitment to this issue. Before I respond to the points raised by noble Lords, I would like to express my…21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to speak to our measures on the Office for Students’ quality assessment. Section 23 of the Higher Education Research Act 2017, which…21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]I shall be delighted to write.21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]My Lords, I thank my noble and learned friend Lord Clarke and the noble Lord, Lord Watson, for their amendments, and all noble Lords who spoke in the debate. I concur with all…21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]I think that the Government’s priority is to see this measure working in practice. Many of your Lordships have far greater experience than I do of how attempts have been made to…21 Oct 2021HANSARDSkills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]I think trying to do mental arithmetic at the Dispatch Box is risky, but, as I read it, it is three times three because of the first, second and third key phases. Maybe we both…21 Oct 2021