Therefore, the Crisis in Capital Funding about which the council so often cries is a crisis of its own making.

The hon. Member for Wakefield (Mary Creagh), who is no longer in her place, made an extraordinarily loyal speech in which she raised a question about her own FE college, which seems to be facing a Capital Funding Crisis, despite the fact that the Secretary of State has already told the House that there is no such thing.

We heard from the shadow Secretary of State, my hon. Friendthe Member for Havant (Mr. Willetts), that potential apprentices are being turned away and from my hon. Friendthe Member for Bexleyheath and Crayford (Mr. Evennett) that the Capital Funding Crisis could have been avoided.

The FE Capital Funding Crisis shows what happens when Ministers are more interested in changing structures than transforming lives.

On Tuesday, on Report on the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill we had a brief opportunity - because of the proper strictures of the Chair - to debate the Capital Funding Crisis in further education colleges, which has seen 144 college programmes frozen.

I have been visiting a range of colleges that are suffering from the Capital Funding Crisis, and I have been shocked by what I have discovered.

As the Foster report on the Capital Funding Crisis in the LSC reminded us, with all their jobs up in the air it is hardly surprising that the LSC staff took their eye off the ball.

The House will know about the Capital Funding Crisis in further education colleges, with 150 colleges being encouraged by the Learning and Skills Council to devise expensive schemes.

Even worse, though, that centralised, target-driven micro-management led to a systemic failure in the form of an FE Capital Funding Crisis from which the sector is still reeling.