It is not inconceivable at all. The problems with the colleges were to do with financial management, not with a lack of information about the state of the estate, or with the quality or the cost management of the builds themselves. The Foster report came to the explicit and clear conclusion that this was a good policy let down by poor implementation, and the manner of that implementation was not at all of the sort described—or apparently rectified—by new clause 1.
Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Sion Simon
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 5 May 2009.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill.
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