Training and Further Education Spending

HC Deb 17 February 2000 vol 344 c657W

33. Mr. Quinn

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what plans he has to re-direct resources for training and further education from spending on administration to vocational and academic education. [109164]

Mr. Wicks

Our plans to create a Learning and Skills Council will bring together, for the first time into a single coherent system, the current range of learning opportunities for individuals and workforce development. The new arrangements will cut through the present duplication and bureaucracy, and will secure savings of at least £50 million a year across post-16 learning.

These savings will be redirected to improving the quality of learning for individuals, raising standards, widening participation and tackling the skills deficit.