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Education and Skills Bill

There would have to be evidence for a notice to be issued. The point about the appeal, which the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, raised, is that this would enable a much easier form of testing of that evidence to take place than going through the whole process to a county court, which as I said earlier is the procedure that would apply unless we had such a ready appeal. As I said in response, it might have been helpful if I had copied my letter to the noble Lord, Lord Goodlad, to Members of the Committee. I copy almost everything that I send to Committee Members. I will circulate that letter because it deals with precisely this point in response to the concerns of the Select Committee on the Constitution on the specific point about employers having adequate redress where they believe a local authority is acting unreasonably.