Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

My hon. Friend is absolutely right that our further education colleges do a really good job, but they are often let down. In my constituency, for example, the Learning and Skills Council has not only wasted £12.5 million on running itself into a lease that it now has to get out of, but has withdrawn £40 million from a huge further education project—namely, Oaklands college, which will now probably fail. The Government might talk wise words, but they do not always deliver—