There is an odd imbalance in the Bill because while there are duties to collect information, there are no duties to give it. That is where the cross-border difficulty arises. I am not sure whether it would be possible to devise a suitable duty that would not be draconian as a way of catching all the people who need to give information to a neighbouring authority if it employed somebody resident there. Local authorities can only get the information they are given, and people may not want to give it to them.
Education and Skills Bill
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Lord Elton
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Thursday, 3 July 2008.
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Debate on bills on Education and Skills Bill.
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