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Regional Learning and Skills Councils Regulations 2007

I am sorry, I meant to come on to that. The point of having regional councils is to allow them to engage more strategically. The noble Baroness has picked up one of the most important points, which is to allow the regional councils to engage directly with the national apprenticeship service and to be strongly involved as the service develops and rolls out. They will also be involved in regional development authorities. There needs to be a lot of joining up with RDAs, the national apprenticeship service and sector skills councils. There is an enormous challenge, as the noble Baroness, Lady Sharp, stressed. She also kindly answered the point about the 150 local partnership groups. We are talking about operating at a regional level but maintaining very strong partnerships locally, particularly with small to medium-sized employers.