Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

I shall take both hon. Gentlemen's interventions in a second. However, before I do, I want to pay tribute to Lord Dearing, one of our country's great education reformers, who died last Thursday. He made a massive contribution in so many areas, and for successive Governments, on languages, the curriculum and higher education. Right up to the end of his life, he was working with my Department to create academies that specialise in technical education. He will be sorely missed by Members on both sides of the House.