We have invested heavily in further education and our reforms are already delivering significant improvements in performance. The next stage of reform was set out in our White Paper: “Raising Skills, Improving Life Chances”, published in March this year. We are putting in place strategies to drive up standards and eliminate inadequate and underperforming provision, increase choice and flexibility and create a demand-led system driven by employer and learner needs. Our FE Bill introduced this week will provide the legislation necessary to implement the reforms.