I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.

I wonder whether we could be told precisely how this proposed new Clause differs from Clause 20, which has been left out of the Bill.

Yes. I should explain that at first there was no requirement in the Bill at all about the making of reports or, indeed, about the giving of annual statistical returns, but as a result of undertakings that I made in Committee a new Clause was put down in the Commons on Report which laid on the Home Secretary an obligation to lay before Parliament an annual return of statistics relating to the approved school system in England and Wales in 1964, and every third year thereafter, and a report on the work of the Home Office in relation to approved schools and generally in relation to the workings of the approved school system in England and Wales.

During the Report stage in the Commons, I accepted a suggestion that the scope of the annual return and of the triennial report should be extended so as to include remand home and attendance centres, and that is what this new Clause does. It extends the obligation both with regard to statistics and reports, so that they will include not only approved schools and not only a report of the working of the children's department, but specific information relating to remand homes and attendance centres as well.