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Sale of Student Loans Bill

I am grateful for the Minister's assurances, but I have to say that what he has suggested falls between two stools and does not give me satisfaction about the security of a Secretary of State's consent. If it did, it would offend against Treasury rules, so it would not be feasible for the Government to calculate on Treasury books. If the two other paragraphs in the clause are amended in the other place, they will not provide the same security, so they will equally fail to comply with Treasury rules. My hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, South (Alan Simpson) has already mentioned Catch-22 and we are in a Catch-22 situation here.