Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

All that we are doing is taking primary powers to implement Lord Laming's recommendation of new statutory targets, the content of which we will consult on in the coming months and which will be designed to ensure that we put child protection first, not process or bureaucracy. That is what Lord Laming's report says and that is what we are implementing—without the support of the Opposition, as is very clear from this debate.