08/03/2017 House of Lords

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tonight. Therefore that is one of the powers

that it has, just as we have existing powers validation from the

two institutions that actually put themselves in touch with each other

and go through validation, and I would like to say that while I know

this is a major issue of concern for the Government, it is also true that

the Competition and Markets Authority does not think it is an

area where there is a real problem in the market. But it isn't always

an easy relationship, and so the purpose of my amendment is simply to

make sure that a provider involved in a commissioning arrangement of

this sort, which involves one institution not necessarily

validating but being the potential validator, and another one hoping to

have its degrees validated if they are good enough, if things go wrong,

there is a clearly marked out route of appeal to the first tier

tribunal, and this is what this amendment sets out to introduce into

the Bill, and on that basis I hope that the Government will think

seriously about this, see this as something to make sure that

everybody has an appeal route, and I beg to move.

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