PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: Contracts (4 May 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps his Department takes to limit the effect on service users of contracts with sub-contractors being terminated early due to the provider being at risk of failure.

Asked by:
Naz Shah (Labour)

Where a subcontractor is impacted by the Skills Funding Agency’s (SFA) decision to terminate a provider contract, the SFA ensures that the learners can remain in their programme of learning either through the subcontractor or through a transfer to another provider depending on the circumstances of the termination. However, the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) does not terminate contracts on the grounds of a provider being ‘at risk of failure’.

Answered by:
Nick Boles (Independent)
11 May 2016