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Oral question asked in the House of Commons, by Philip Davies (Conservative). It was answered on Thursday, 12 November 2009 on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.


Apprenticeships

Question
I thank the Minister for those figures, but will he break them down further and explain how many of them were real, traditional apprenticeships, as most people in this country would understand them, and how many of them were other forms of training that the Government call apprenticeships for reasons of political spin?
Answer

The hon. Gentleman's attitude is rather disappointing and rather out of date. More than 180 apprenticeship frameworks, across all sorts of careers, are available now in the UK since the Government rescued apprenticeships from the oblivion that they were heading towards under the Conservative party.


Secondary information

Type
Oral question
Reference
499 c346 
Session
2008-09
Oral question type
1st Supplementary
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Apprentices
Link
View this Oral question on www.publications.parliament.uk