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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Julian Gravatt: We suggested in our response to the White Paper that there should be one rather than two national agencies. We also suggested that the Government were not ambitious enough in the savings that they were making through the process. There are 3,300 staff in the Learning and Skills Council and we understand that all will be transferred somewhere else. It might have made sense to look at a more streamlined structure.

On the self-regulation agenda, a key thing would be how these different agencies and the local authorities behave in the future. We do not think that the argument is lost but, in the short term, there will be a slightly more complex structure that will be difficult to navigate.