Clause 17
Further Education and Training Bill [Lords]
5:00 pm
Angela Smith (PPS (Yvette Cooper, Minister of State), Department for Communities and Local Government; Sheffield, Hillsborough, Labour)
Will the hon. Gentleman concede that the issue of franchising ought to concern us generally in the provision of education and not only in relation to the particular set of relationships between higher education and further education or between FE institutions? The franchising needs to be of a high quality wherever it is done and whoever issues the franchise.