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Sale of Student Loans Bill

Let me be very clear. The Minister has said that his advice from the Office for National Statistics was that paragraph (a) is classified so it falls against Treasury rules in giving too much control to the Government. He has also said that paragraphs (b) and (c) fall against my criteria because they give insufficient control to the Government. That is the Catch-22. I shall not press the amendment, but having heard expressions of the Government's good will in the Minister's response, let us hope that the matter can be resolved in the other place on the basis of some of the suggestions in the amendments that we have debated today. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.