Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

As I said, my aim—I think that we can achieve this with hon. Members from most parts of the House, including the hon. Member for Surrey Heath—is to move forward consensually. I regret the tone with which parts of this debate have been conducted by the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton). Implementing Lord Laming's recommendations are important, and that is what the Bill does. I repeat:""The new ContactPoint system will have particular advantages in reducing the possibility of children for whom there are concerns going unnoticed."" It is clear what Lord Laming says in his report, "The Protection of Children in England: A Progress Report". I am absolutely confident that he, Barnardo's, the NSPCC and the Children's Commissioner, as well as many other organisations, support ContactPoint. I really do wish that we could have a consensus that took politics out of this important issue. I am going to conclude. I am grateful to the House for allowing me to bring forward these new clauses at this stage of the Bill's progress. It is vital that we lose no time in putting in place the further reforms needed to keep children safe. I wish that we could have a consensus on the matter. I welcome the many speeches that have shown that we can indeed achieve a widespread consensus, and I hope that all the Government new clauses can be supported. I commend new clause 21 to the House. Question put and agreed to. Clause read a Second time, and added to the Bill.