Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

Part of the debate – in a Public Bill Committee at 12:00 pm on 3 March 2009.

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Photo of John Hayes John Hayes Shadow Minister (Education) 12:00, 3 March 2009

The operation of FE colleges will surely be complicated by the statutory rights of local education authorities to fund and plan education and to direct colleges to accept particular students. Indeed, the AOC brief, reinforced by the 157 Group brief, makes it clear that that is a concern. You talk about not confusing the role of LEAs with the leadership of colleges. Clearly, there are profound concerns about that. What is your estimate of the number of local authorities a college would have to deal with? Will that not be a bureaucratic muddle?