"Unless we make the system sufficiently nimble to respond to dynamic demand it will not be fit for purpose, " Mr Hayes said, explaining that the proposals would get rid of "a raft of unnecessary and prescriptiveduties" and "strip away central controls over further education and sixth-form colleges in respect of their governance and dissolution arrangements".
She said the health secretary's duties as currently defined in the bill were "neither prescriptive nor exhaustive" and therefore the amendment "would not give the secretary of state a new power to do anything that the clause does not already accommodate".