Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

I will give way in a few minutes. The Bill makes promises that cannot be kept, claims to simplify where it complicates, and will be subject, as usual, to fairly limited parliamentary scrutiny. If the hon. Member for Hastings and Rye (Michael Jabez Foster) had been present throughout the debate instead of having just arrived, he would know that the Secretary of State has already today told the House that he plans amendments for the Committee stage of this Bill; the Second Reading had barely begun, and the Bill was starting to crumble. I do not have time to itemise all the Bill's shortcomings, but if selected to serve, I would hope to contribute to any possible improvements in Committee.