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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 26 March 2026
Debate
English Devolution and Community Empowerment BillContribution
The specific question I want to raise is this: the model that we proposed placed the responsibility on the strategic authority, principally the mayor, to be the convenor of this collaborative effort to drive forward the reduction in local unemployment. However, in the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper, published in October, the Government came up with a different model. I quote from paragraph 232 of the Select Committee report:
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