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Further Education and Training Bill [HL]

Before the Minister speaks, perhaps I may intervene briefly. I thank the Minister very much for his very full and careful response to me at Second Reading and subsequently in the letter that he was kind enough to send me. The assurances he gave me at Second Reading and in his letter are very helpful, but I want the Minister to make absolutely clear that in contrasting local mainstream provision and national residential provision he is absolutely confident that national residential provision includes specialist provision. That must be clear, because I think that most of the national residential provision is specialist provision. It would just be very helpful to have the Minister’s confirmation on that point.