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Apprenticeships Funding

Proceeding contribution from Robert Halfon (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 1 November 2016. It occurred during Debate on Apprenticeships Funding.

I will not, because I only have a few minutes left to speak, and I think that the right hon. Gentleman had a fair crack of the whip.

We are putting a huge amount of money into FE funding, guaranteeing that £7 billion will be spent on FE funding and training. We have put money into a transition year and traineeships. Of those who do traineeships, 60% are aged 16 to 18 and 50% go on to get work, apprenticeships or education. Some £50 million has been spent on traineeships thus far—again, that was not mentioned in the debate.

Of course, we are doing a lot of work on welfare reform to help with jobcentres and so on. An enormous amount of money is going towards helping 16 to 18-year-olds and people from socially disadvantaged backgrounds.

To use some frameworks as a way of saying that the Government are not helping the poorest is entirely wrong. I have five priorities for apprenticeships.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
616 cc305-6WH 
Session
2016-17
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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