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Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 7 July 2025

Debate

Combined Authorities (Adult Education Functions) (Amendment) Order 2025

Contribution

My Lords, I thank the noble Earl, Lord Effingham, for his comments and his overall support of the direction of travel. I will pick up a couple of the points that he raised, in particular his comments about the reduction in adult skills funding allocations. I have to say that our analysis is that we have made a small reduction of 3%. The noble Earl referred to a reduction of 6%, but the overall reduction is in fact 3%. I emphasise that devolution is about giving freedom to those who best understand local needs, so that resources can be managed more effectively.

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