HC Deb 17 June 2003 vol 407 c130W
Mr. Boswell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills whether an educational support organisation, which is receiving national funding from the Learning and Skills Council, may also receive the funding required to establish basic skills under a national programme. [118068]

Alan Johnson

I understand that this concerns the access of a certain national learning provider to a national contract for funding. The Learning and Skills Council are driving down bureaucracy by introducing single contracts with providers who operate in more than one local area, and I have asked the LSC to talk to this particular provider about how best to move to a more simplified contractual arrangement.