Clause 22

Part of Education and Skills Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 6:45 pm ar 19 Chwefror 2008.

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Photo of David Laws David Laws Shadow Secretary of State (Children, Schools and Families) 6:45, 19 Chwefror 2008

I am grateful to the Minister for clarifying the Government’s intent. He reassured me that if the documents supplied by a young person were falsified in some way, the young person, not the employer, would be held to account. I did not manage to leap in in time to ask the Minister to clarify the other circumstance to which I referred. A young person might have legitimately got into education and training at the beginning of their employment with an employer and then dropped out of the training course three days after, or the training course might have collapsed. That individual might then have decided that there was nothing else on offer that they wanted to take up. Perhaps two or three months later, someone might discover that that young person was not in education or training. Under those circumstances, would there be an employer responsibility?