Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

I am finding it very difficult to understand the Minister’s argument. Amendment 156 merely rewrites subsection (2) so that instead of saying that the "YPLA may give directions", it proposes that the Secretary of State, on a recommendation from the YPLA, may give directions. I am not sure why the noble Baroness, the Minister, is objecting to that. The Minister seems to be saying that it is right that an elected official should make the decision, but under the clause it is not the Secretary of State who makes the decision. It states: ""The YPLA may give directions"." If the Minister were to address that point we may make a little more progress.