Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

My Lords, while I agreed with the Minister when he said on the previous group that resources are finite and that a balance has to be struck, his words would have somewhat more force if, when speaking on an earlier group today, he had not boasted of how much money the Government had spent on a particular issue, as if the amount were the only measure of success. The Government still have not got the message that it is not just about how much they have spent but about how effective that spending is. On the matter of the age range in my noble friend’s amendment, how was it decided that the age restriction would be between 19 and 25? What were the reasons behind that?