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Skills England can bring together the fractured skills landscape and create a shared ambition to boost the nation’s skills. I have already talked about some of the activity it has been engaged in but I want to reassure noble Lords on the point about how effective Skills England can be across government. It is already working closely with the Migration Advisory Committee, for example. The noble Lord, Lord Lucas, made a point about the relationship between developing our domestic skills pipeline and employers who choose to import their skills instead; that important relationship will be fundamental for Skills England. It is also working with the industrial strategy advisory council as it develops the sector strategies and their skills elements, and with the Labour Market Advisory Board. This is all part of a new framework, using research to make recommendations about the new training courses needed to bolster the number of domestic workers in particular sectors.