David Willetts, the shadow education secretary, has revealed through a number of parlimentary questions that the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) - one of the government's biggest education quangos - has "wasted" more than £100m on staff redundancies and on several internal re-organisations.
- LSC was created five years ago and has carried out three re-organisations so far with the fourth one planned for later this year;
- LSC has spent almost £55m on making its staff redundant (since 2001);
- £61.9 spent in the year before LSC launch winding up its predecessor, the national network of Training and Enterprise Councils, bringing the total bill to more than £116 million since 2000.
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Small beer, according to the Government
The really breathtaking aspect of that report was the explanation by the spokeswoman for the Department for Education and Skills, that the LSC budget is "well over £11bn" and that the money wasted therefore "represents less than half of one per cent of the total". When the Government thinks that £100 million is small change whose wastage is insignificant, they are managing too much of our money. Imagine what that £100 million could have done if left in taxpayers' hands. They would have been very much less careless about how they spent it.