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Apprentices

Answer

The Government has no role in deciding the location or type of apprenticeships being done, and therefore does not have this information. This Government skills policy has shifted from forcing skills providers to meet detailed centrally determined skills targets, to giving providers, employers and learners the flexibility and ownership to determine which skills will best provide employment and respond to skills gaps in the local and national economy.

Local employers and providers have the local knowledge and profession expertise to best identify the skills that are most valuable, not bureaucrats in London. The apprenticeship reforms will strength this approach.

As apprenticeships are real jobs with training, the locations and sectors where apprenticeships are available is therefore determined by employers offering apprenticeships and recruiting apprentices.

Final data for the full 2012/13 academic year will be available by January 2014 along with provisional data for the first quarter of the 2013/14 academic year. Final data for the full 2013/14 academic year will be available by January 2015.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

166530; 567 cc129-130W

Session

2013-14

Subjects

Apprentices Gedling

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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