Skills quango "wasted" £100m

David Willetts, the shadow education secretary, has revealed through a number of parlimentary questions that the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) - one of the government's biggest education quangos - has "wasted" more than £100m on staff redundancies and on several internal re-organisations.

• LSC was created five years ago and has carried out three re-organisations so far with the fourth one planned for later this year;
• LSC has spent almost £55m on making its staff redundant (since 2001);
• £61.9 spent in the year before LSC launch winding up its predecessor, the national network of Training and Enterprise Councils, bringing the total bill to more than £116 million since 2000.

 From the Telegraph