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Advice Centres (Barnsley and Sheffield)

If the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, my hon. Friend the Member for Hertford and Stortford (Mr Prisk) was present, he would no doubt explain to the hon. Lady that, although major changes are taking place due to the RDAs going and local enterprise partnerships being set up, the European money to which she referred, which was channelled through Yorkshire Forward to her CAB, can still, we believe, be obtained. I cannot tell her how it will be allocated, because Yorkshire Forward will no longer exist, but it is not true to say that that money will all be lost to the system. I share the hon. Lady's concern that these are challenging times for the CAB, but our Department is making sure that the national organisation has its funding protected. We believe that, working across Departments and with local authorities, we can ensure that the advice that is sorely needed will be available. Sitting suspended.