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Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

I am very grateful, as I am sure is the Committee, to the noble Lord for that full reply. However, I became increasingly worried as I listened to it, because all the language being used is about the local authority’s duty and the local authority as a commissioner. The person who commissions provision is in charge of what provision is commissioned. The noble Lord’s answer to my point was that the local authority might decide that because there was a private provider it would not to commission that provision from the further education college. Some further education colleges and sixth form colleges have taken on the private sector and have provided brilliantly, at a lower cost and far better, the kind of course or training which a private provider in the locality was already offering. Why are we shifting away from the freedom of those colleges?