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Further Education and Training Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 3: 3: Clause 19 , page 13, line 32, at end insert— ““( ) In subsection (4C), after ““subsection (4)(bb) above”” insert ““or the power conferred by subsection (4)(bc) above””.”” The noble Lord said: My Lords, this is a minor, technical amendment to Clause 19 to ensure that companies and charitable incorporated organisations are treated equally in Section 19 of the Further and Higher Education Act. Our intention is to enable further education institutions to collaborate with a range of partners, including schools, universities and others, to develop flexible and innovative models of delivery which will improve quality across the system, increase learner choice and enable efficiencies. Further education corporations may form or join companies and charitable incorporated organisations. In the case of companies that are to deliver publicly funded education, this has to be with the agreement of the relevant funding body. As drafted, the Bill does not permit institutions to form charitable incorporated organisations for the purposes of delivering publicly funded education at all. It was always our intention that this power should be available to further education corporations. The amendment ensures that companies and charitable incorporated organisations are treated in the same way. I beg to move. On Question, amendment agreed to. Clause 25 [Powers of National Assembly for Wales]: