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West Midlands and Coventry

I congratulate my hon. Friend who is making a passionate case for Coventry and issues that affect us all more generally. Is not part of the answer to the hon. Lady's question that many employers would like to take on more apprentices and provide more skills training, but they need demand in the economy and demand for their products to do so? The Government's failure to achieve that demand in the economy is leaving it flatlining. We need the plan for growth that the Labour party has suggested.