10:30 am
John Hayes (Shadow Minister, Innovation, Universities and Skills; South Holland and The Deepings, Conservative)
So you contest that our expert witness, who represented the sector skills councils, was wrong about two things: first, when he complained that the involvement of LEAs would complicate the process as far as sector skills councils were concerned, and secondly, when he explicitly said that one of the advantages of the LSC was that he dealt with a single body. Sector skills councils will now have to deal with more bodies, which will confuse and complicate their role and make it more bureaucratic. We want to be clear about this. We have already gathered that the Ministers think that the British Chambers of Commerce was wrong when it represented business. Was the Alliance of Sector Skills Councils wrong too?