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Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

My Lords, I quite agree with what the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham, said. I have not located the part of the Bill that allows that to happen. I was looking at the other end of things on page 32, at proposed new Section 562E. My understanding is that the clause we are looking at does not affect page 32, because this part has sufficient powers within itself to allow the transfer of information inwards towards the Prison Service. Reading it in detail, my concern is that the right it gives is to ask information of a local authority. The host authority or those involved with the education of the prisoner can get at the relevant local authority to find out information that it has, but the local authority has no right to go back to the school or other educational establishment that has been providing education for the prisoner before then. How does the clause we are looking at now affect that transfer between the school and the local authority? How do the mechanisms provided in proposed new Section 562E in conjunction with the clause we are looking at now work to allow for efficient transfer of information? I do not need an answer now if it is not immediately to hand.