Member

Like many people—I think almost everybody—in the skills world, I was delighted by the emphasis that the current Government put on skills. It is absolutely critical that we improve our skills system and address the crying need for skills in many areas and for clearer pathways into skills training than we have at the moment. I admit that as I know altogether too much about how many different bodies we have had in the past and how much different legislation there has been, including some that I have been involved with, it was difficult for me to be totally optimistic that Skills England was it, but I think we should try very hard to make it so.