Member

Your Lordships’ Industry and Regulators Committee, chaired by my noble friend Lady Taylor of Bolton, wrote a letter, because of the timings, to the Secretary of State relating to skills for the future and raised a number of issues about wealth, work, health and skills plans and how they would gel together. It mentioned the youth guarantee, which I have touched on, and exactly what, who and how the growth and skills levy would be applied, and who would be making the decisions. The reason that is relevant to this legislation is that, were Skills England to be on the face of the Bill, there should be clear reporting mechanisms to Parliament, not just to the Secretary of State and the Minister, who is already doing an excellent job in this—I am not saying that just to get a decent reply, but she is doing a good job.