BL-2022-002117 - [2025] EWHC 2794 (Ch)

In October 2014, Sir Peter, who was already Chief Executive of the Education Funding Agency, was appointed as Chief Executive of the SFA.

Shortly after the 2015 General Election, Mr Marples emailed Nick Boles (the Minister of State for Skills) asking for a meeting to discuss SFA funding policy. Mr Boles’ office forwarded the email to Sir Peter, who commented on the Company as follows:

“It is an organisation that has done very well recently and expanded rapidly and does seem to have a strong employer driven focus and has scored well with Ofsted. I have said that I will visit one of their centres later this year.

Subject to looking at their data more, this might be the kind of organisation we would seek to expand in future because they do pull new employers in. One of the things I want the App Delivery Board to do is to take a targeted look at how we manage growth to focus on the game changers.”

On 24 July 2015, Sir Peter visited the Company at the invitation of Mr Marples and Ms McEvoy-Robinson and recorded in an email at the time that he was “very impressed”.