Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

As I said earlier, this subsection is intended to reflect the fact that the English certifying authority should be issuing certificates only to apprentices working wholly or mainly in England, and vice versa. That will be in the Specification of Apprenticeship Standards for England and in that for Wales. Although the sector skills councils may operate in that way, that is where we are in terms of issuing the certificates and what the authority should be. We believe that there is enough flexibility, as defined. It does not rule out some movement. We are saying that they should be working wholly or mainly in England. My experience of apprenticeships, and others’ more current experience, suggests that that will serve the vast majority of cases.