Schedule 4
1:45 pm
Nick Gibb (Shadow Minister, Children, Schools and Families; Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment 106, in schedule 4, page 161, line 30, at end insert—
‘(2A) The Chief Executive may not employ more than 1,800 people in total.’.
Schedule 4 and clause 78 establish the post of chief executive of skills funding. The organisation, according to the explanatory notes, will be referred to as the Skills Funding Agency, and it will delegate to the chief executive of the National Apprenticeship Service the apprenticeship functions in clause 79. As far as I can tell, the Bill makes no mention of either the SFA or the NAS. I am sure that there are strange British legislative reasons for their omission, but it would help me if the Minister were to explain those traditions, which have resulted in the two terms not being included.
Our concern is not just about nomenclature. The amorphous nature of the legislation establishing the bodies lends weight—