Speaking at a parliamentary debate hosted by the union Unison in Westminster today (9 February), Wright said: "When I was skills minister I looked at abolishing Connexions and giving money directly to schools. I looked at the £200m budget and realised that it meant that every school would have an extra £18,000 to spend on careers advice. That doesn’t pay for anything."
He added that one of the traps the government will fall into is that its plans are "inefficient".
Earlier, the debate had heard evidence from a panel of experts about the impact that cuts will have on careers advice services. Professor Tom Watts said the government’s plans for universal careers advice appeared to be in disarray. He said that there was no evidence that the £200m that had previously been used to pay for universal careers advice was being passed on to schools in their budgets, which begged the question "what is happening to that £200m?"
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