Responding, Lee Hopley, Head of Economic Policy at EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation said:
“The skills system has been subject to numerous reviews and revamps over the past decade, failing to provide the greater stability and a skills funding system that meets employers’ needs for the long term. There is already too much complexity, as has been readily acknowledged, and floating ideas for another reorganisation before the new Skills Funding Agency has even been set up needs full and proper consultation.
“With the UK Commission for Employment and Skills currently consulting on skills simplification and the Government proposing a new skills regional agenda, employers are likely to become more frustrated if this process does not deliver a more accessible and predictable skills landscape.”