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Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

I am grateful to the Minister for his reply, and particularly for his acknowledgment that we are facing a huge challenge. We are talking about doubling the number of apprenticeship places for people under 19, with something like 100,000 extra places in five or so years. That is an extraordinary challenge to bring about an education revolution and to deliver the raising of the education participation age, which cannot be done except through this channel. It is extremely worrying that there is not more public talk about this; we do not hear enough about it from Ministers or local MPs, although this is a great new thing that should be happening in their constituencies. I am still not satisfied that there is a strong enough marketing of this to employers. Can the Minister not think of something new that can be done? I was depressed by elements of what he said, which suggested that what we are doing is fine, because what we are doing is not going to be up to the task—