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Dr Lynne Sedgmore, executive director of the 157 Group, consortium of 29 of the UK's largest FE Colleges, said: Further education colleges are already strong strategic players within their cities and regions, and so we welcome the Labour party's commitment to greater devolution of skills funding and increased local autonomy.
"Only radical reform of the way public money is spent and widespread devolution of transport, housing, skills and health and social care across England in the spending review can protect the services which bind our communities together and protect our most vulnerable".
devolution of more powers for skills, transport and development to the English regions.
However, for devolution to succeed it needs a blend of skills, said Philip Hoare, group managing director of Atkins UK transportation division.
Labour is already committed to increasing devolution of powers over housing, transport and skills to English cities and regions but is now setting the amount of cash it would transfer from Whitehall to £30 billion over the course of five years.
By the start of November, Leese and his counterparts at the other nine councils of Greater Manchester had dropped their opposition to having an elected mayor and were duly rewarded with a devolution deal, giving them control over their transport budget, a £300m housing investment fund, £500m of skills spending and other goodies.
Skills = Institutionalization of Skills.
He said Labour wanted to introduce "more devolution of power to our cities and our county regions, more devolution of housing spending, job spend, skills and business support".
It wants full devolution of housing benefit.
