Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

Not many hon. Members will know that the hon. Lady and I share a birthday, although not the same year. Let me take her back a little in history. When the FE sector was taken away from local authorities, for the first two or three years, the emphasis on capital investment had to be directed towards urgent health and safety. There was not much available for all the other capital investment, which we could have undertaken in due course. That is at least part of the background to the somewhat specious figures that she has produced.