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Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

As somebody who is very heavily involved in the sector skills councils, I support the final statement made by my noble friend; there are differences across the four nations in NVQs and other elements that sector skills councils deal with. I will make the arguments when moving my own amendment, but as regards a passport for employment, the certificate should be able to be read right across all the countries. People do not just get an apprenticeship in England and then work forever in England. There are other arguments about where the sector skills councils’ logo should be on the certificate, but I should like to reserve those. There are differences in how the sector skills councils have to work across four nations—Scotland has different NVQs and Wales, as my noble friend has said, has a baccalaureate, which we do not have here—but that does not necessarily mean that they have to manifest themselves across the certificates as well.