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However, Skills England lies somewhere in no man’s land. If noble Lords do not believe me, they should believe Philip Augar, chair and author of the Augar report five years ago. He recently wrote as though Skills England was an arm’s-length executive agency rather than an executive agency within the department. There is enormous confusion out there about exactly what the relationship of Skills England is to the department and the work that we are transferring from IfATE, initially to the department and then presumably to the body embodied in the department called Skills England, which is not allowed to be on the face of the Bill.