Mr Lewis was responding to concerns that uncertainty about the future of Wales’ local authorities was making planning difficult for the consortia.
Wales’ 22 local authorities have been working through four regional education consortia, directly answerable to elected members, since September 2012. But there are plans to reduce the number of councils in Wales to just eight or nine.
Appearing before the National Assembly’s Children, Young People and Education Committee, Mr Lewis said: “No-one here is in a position to say precisely what the local government map might look like in two or three years’ time. (But) I can’t see a short or medium-term future which can do without consortia.
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