Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

We are not totally unappreciative of what the Minister has said about the increase in apprenticeship places in the course of the last Government, but we wish to see it expanded and encouraged further. We support what the noble Lord, Lord Layard, has said about the use of the word "entitlement", which would be one vehicle by which the Government could show how they enforce their encouragement of apprenticeships. So we support the noble Lord’s amendment.