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Education and Skills Bill

My Lords, I thank the Minister very sincerely for the helpful way in which she has answered my questions. I thank her for clarifying where the duty on local authorities lies in other legislation; for giving us examples of the functions that the duty would relate to in schools; and for telling us about the consultation and the date of that. She was very clear that the word ““consider”” is equivalent to the words ““have regard to””. Finally, after the consultation, I hope that we will get the enactment of this clause. I am aware that Clause 170 tells us that various bits of this Bill will be enacted at different times. Obviously, it would not make sense to enact it before the consultation, but I hope that it will be enacted very soon after that. I thank the Minister for that clarification. On Question, amendment agreed to.