Member

Amendments 117C and 117D, also tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Cash, would require local authorities within regional care co-operatives to report various data to the Secretary of State at least quarterly, and would require the Secretary of State to publish an annual summary of that data and to share it with Ofsted and the Competition and Markets Authority. As I suggested earlier—and to reassure the noble Baroness, I hope—there are important existing requirements on local authorities to report data on looked-after children. Those will be unaffected by the legislation.