During a Westminster Hall debate on local youth provision, the MP for Reading East, who holds the youth work portfolio at the Cabinet Office, said he does not think it is the government’s responsibility to tell local authorities how to fund and deliver activities for young people.
“It cannot be the job of central government to dictate to them what services to deliver or ringfence funding for that purpose,” he said.
Wilson told MPs that he has considered the EDM, but will not be signing it because he thinks that Section 507B of the Education and Inspections Act 2006, which places a legal duty on local authorities to secure sufficient services and activities for 13- to 19-year-olds and young people under 24 with learning difficulties, is sufficient.
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