Member

It was very sad—we will perhaps come back to this on Tuesday—that my right honourable friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer did not have anything to say about Skills England or the growth and skills levy in the Budget. That is partly because the Treasury—and I speak from bitter experience—really does not get it. It has never got it, it is in the DNA, and it is in the nature of recruitment to the Treasury and where individuals working there, brilliant as they are, come from.