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Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that reply, which goes a very long way to reassure me that the departments are thinking on similar lines and that there is a real intention to get a single strategy in this way. The amendment, for all its drafting faults, would not have overridden the responsibilities of the two Secretaries of State to be in charge of the strategy. It gives them the right of final approval of the strategies and indeed, on the model that the Minister has just outlined, the two Secretaries of State would have to turn to the two agencies in order to formulate their overarching strategy. I am grateful to the Minister for having come so far along the way and for his assurance of what will be the way things work. In the light of that I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment 138 withdrawn. Schedule 6: Dissolution of the Learning and Skills Council for England: minor and consequential amendments Amendment 139 Schedule 6: Dissolution of the Learning and Skills Council for England: minor and consequential amendments Amendment 139 Moved by