Further Education (Liverpool)

Mr. Wareing
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he last met the assistant director for further education in Liverpool; what subjects were discussed; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Jackson
Officials of the Department met the senior assistant director (further education) of Liverpool local authority, together with the assistant city solicitor, on 21 March. His purpose in requesting the meeting was, in accordance with a resolution of Liverpool city council, to advise the Department of the council's decision to recommend to its education committee that the management of its further education provision be restructured by 1 April 1991 to a single college model on various sites throughout the city.