Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

Briefly, I am absolutely emphatic that the funding follows the learner. The difficulty lies in trying to put across the question of the commissioning process. We have said that we will write with a further explanation and I will honour that commitment. But I am clear that the funding will follow the learner. When we talked about the bad old days, there was a question of recoupment with much exchanging of invoices between local authorities. We certainly do not want to return to that, and we will not.