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What recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of steps taken by his Department to encourage more young people to obtain qualifications leading to careers in engineering.
What recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of steps taken by his Department to encourage more young people to obtain qualifications leading to careers in engineering.
Apprenticeship starts in engineering and manufacturing technologies have increased by 52% since 2010. In 2014, there was a 10% increase in new students studying engineering at university, following an 11% increase in 2013.
I welcome that very positive response from the Minister. However, given that continuing shortages of engineering apprentices and graduates will cost the economy as much as £27 billion a year in lost output, undermine our competitiveness and threaten our security, can he think of better words to inspire a new generation of young men and women to become engineers than those of the railway engineer who wrote:
“I am an engineer. I serve mankind by making dreams come true.”
I welcome that very positive response from the Minister. However, given that continuing shortages of engineering apprentices and graduates will cost the economy as much as £27 billion a year in lost output, undermine our competitiveness and threaten our security, can he think of better words to inspire a new generation of young men and women to become engineers than those of the railway engineer who wrote:
“I am an engineer. I serve mankind by making dreams come true.”
It is entirely fitting that my hon. Friend should conclude his parliamentary career on such a poetic note, championing a cause he has consistently championed. It relates directly to the earlier question from the hon. Member for Sheffield, Heeley (Meg Munn), who is also bringing her parliamentary career to a close by championing the same cause. We have a huge amount
to do, but inspiration is the key. We need to inspire young people that engineers are the people who go out and build things and make things happen in our society. We need many more of them.
To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, how the Government Equalities Office pilot project to improve links between schools and businesses to raise the career aspirations of young people, which has been awarded to the British Chambers of Commerce, will be co-ordinated with the work in this area at...
To ask the Ministers for Women and Equalities, how the Government Equalities Office pilot project to improve links between schools and businesses to raise the career aspirations of young people, which has been awarded to the British Chambers of Commerce, will be co-ordinated with the work in this area at...
The aim of the School-Business Partnerships pilot is to establish long lasting and mutually beneficial partnerships in which schools and businesses work together. The primary focus of the partnerships is on business, particularly local business, rather than national organisations. In addition, each partnership is focusing on the sectors best suited to the local area.
Four out of the five partnerships have incorporated some element of STEM activity in their programme. For example, two have partnered with STEM Ambassadors to deliver activities in schools and one partnership is hosting an event with The Royal Academy of Engineering next year. In addition, Government has shared information on the activities of Engineering UK, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society and STEMnet with the British Chambers of Commerce.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps he is taking to ensure that more women are able to take up senior positions in engineering businesses.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps he is taking to ensure that more women are able to take up senior positions in engineering businesses.
The Government is working with employers, professional bodies and HE and FE institutions to encourage more women to enter engineering and to remove barriers to their progression.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) funds the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering jointly to run a programme of work aimed at understanding and addressing issues of diversity in the STEM work force.
The Royal Academy of Engineering has developed a diversity concordat which 70% of engineering institutions, representing over 90% of registered engineers, have now signed. They also run the Diversity Leadership Group, made up of senior industrial representatives from an array of engineering disciplines who steer and review collective actions to increase the size and diversity of the engineering talent pool.
BIS contributes to the cost of hosting the finals of the National Science and Engineering Competition at the annual Big Bang Fair which took place last month. 55% of Competition prizewinners were girls and the Fair promoted Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) careers to a record number of schoolchildren.
BIS also funds STEMNET to run the STEM Ambassadors programme: a nationwide network of over 27,000 volunteers who visit schools to bring STEM career opportunities to life. 40% of STEM Ambassadors are women.
The Opposition do not regard this as a serious matter—I thought they did.
What is the Prime Minister’s response to the thoughtful report, published last week, which I commissioned to meet his challenge, called “Through Both Eyes”, by the campaign group ScienceGrrl?
The Opposition do not regard this as a serious matter—I thought they did.
What is the Prime Minister’s response to the thoughtful report, published last week, which I commissioned to meet his challenge, called “Through Both Eyes”, by the campaign group ScienceGrrl?
May I pay tribute to my hon. Friend for campaigning and working so hard on this issue? It is really important for the future of our country—not just for gender equality but for our economic future—to get more women into STEM subjects and into engineering. I support the National Centre for Universities and Businesses’ target of doubling the number of female engineering graduates by 2030. We are working with employers, professional bodies and academic institutions to implement the Perkins review of engineering skills, and I think one of the most powerful things is role models like the one that my hon. Friend mentioned in his question.
Will the Secretary of State reassure me that he regards the excellent John Perkins review of engineering skills as the irreducible minimum necessary to address the urgent shortages in engineering skills in our country, and that his Department will remain open to ideas better to market engineering to young people, and to address the appalling gender stereotyping that is frustrating so many women’s ambitions to get into engineering?
Will the Secretary of State reassure me that he regards the excellent John Perkins review of engineering skills as the irreducible minimum necessary to address the urgent shortages in engineering skills in our country, and that his Department will remain open to ideas better to market engineering to young people, and to address the appalling gender stereotyping that is frustrating so many women’s ambitions to get into engineering?
Yes, it is an exceptionally good report. The challenge is a massive one. There is an acute shortage of engineers, and the problem is particularly serious among women. I believe that something in the order of one in 10 professional engineers is a woman, and about one in 20 in advanced apprenticeships. We are actively seeking to address that with the professional institutions.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills which recommendations in Professor John Perkins' review of engineering skills published in November 2013 he has accepted; and what arrangements he is making for their implementation.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills which recommendations in Professor John Perkins' review of engineering skills published in November 2013 he has accepted; and what arrangements he is making for their implementation.
I warmly welcome Professor Perkins' review. Engineering has a vital role to play in the future of UK industry. It is important that we act now to ensure businesses have access to the skills they require to enable them to grow: this is a long-term challenge that requires action by Government, but also by employers, educators and the engineering profession.
In support of Professor Perkins' recommendations, on 4 November the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills announced £18 million for a new elite training facility at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry, and up to £30 million for a call in the new year for innovative proposals from employers to develop engineering skills in sectors suffering acute shortages. We are providing funding of £250,000 for Tomorrow's Engineers to accelerate a nationwide rollout of an employer engagement programme, so that young people can lean about engineering from engineers themselves, and £45,000 for the Daphne Jackson Trust to develop their fellowship model to support people returning to professional engineering after a career break.
The Government will play its part, but we are also calling on employers, educators and the engineering profession to work together, to inspire the next generation of engineers and make sure they have the cutting edge skills they will need to compete in the economy of the future.
The high speed of High Speed 2 will depend of the high technology of a new generation of civil engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers and many others. May I challenge a member of the ministerial Front Bench to come upstairs with me, after Question Time, to the Bloodhound supersonic car simulator to see whether they can beat the very creditable speed of the hon. Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Richard Burden) and learn about what the product is doing to inspire a new generation of children about the opportunities for British engineering?
The high speed of High Speed 2 will depend of the high technology of a new generation of civil engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers and many others. May I challenge a member of the ministerial Front Bench to come upstairs with me, after Question Time, to the Bloodhound supersonic car simulator to see whether they can beat the very creditable speed of the hon. Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Richard Burden) and learn about what the product is doing to inspire a new generation of children about the opportunities for British engineering?
I am delighted to accept that invitation, particularly because on Sunday I took part in the oldest motoring event in the world, driving from London to Brighton in six hours. The speed of the Bloodhound will be a great experience, I am sure.
On a difficult day for UK shipbuilding, is it not more important than ever to tell our young people that modern engineering offers varied and rewarding careers, and that we urgently need many more engineering apprentices and graduates—the message both of this week’s “tomorrow’s engineers” week, and of Monday’s report from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills chief scientist, Professor John Perkins?
On a difficult day for UK shipbuilding, is it not more important than ever to tell our young people that modern engineering offers varied and rewarding careers, and that we urgently need many more engineering apprentices and graduates—the message both of this week’s “tomorrow’s engineers” week, and of Monday’s report from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills chief scientist, Professor John Perkins?
My hon. Friend is right about that, and he has campaigned long and hard to encourage respect for engineering and for more young people to study engineering. We are seeing a growth in the number of young people studying engineering, but it is true that there are still engineering jobs on the skills shortage list of the Migration Advisory Committee. That is a rebuke to our country, and we need to get more young people studying maths and science at school and more people studying engineering at our universities.
Ten minute rule motion for leave to bring in a Bill. Agreed to on question. Presentation and first reading (Bill 138). To be read a second time on 1 March.
Ten minute rule motion for leave to bring in a Bill. Agreed to on question. Presentation and first reading (Bill 138). To be read a second time on 1 March.
If the Prime Minister agrees that the shortage of engineering skills is one of the greatest avoidable threats to our prosperity and security, and that the participation of women in engineering is scandalously low, will he encourage his colleagues to look favourably on the provisions of my Science, Technology and Engineering (Careers Information in Schools) Bill to inspire young people to take up the challenging and well paid careers in engineering, whether as graduates or apprentices?
If the Prime Minister agrees that the shortage of engineering skills is one of the greatest avoidable threats to our prosperity and security, and that the participation of women in engineering is scandalously low, will he encourage his colleagues to look favourably on the provisions of my Science, Technology and Engineering (Careers Information in Schools) Bill to inspire young people to take up the challenging and well paid careers in engineering, whether as graduates or apprentices?
I will certainly look very carefully at the Bill that my hon. Friend puts forward. In the recent UCAS data, released today, one of the encouraging signs is that the number of people studying engineering and computer science has actually gone up quite radically. That is an early sign that the steps that have been taken over recent years—frankly, by Governments of all parties —to try to raise the status of and encourage engineering are beginning to have an effect.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what discussions he has had with the Bloodhound world land speed record team on the role of the project in encouraging young people to pursue careers in engineering; and if he will make a statement.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what discussions he has had with the Bloodhound world land speed record team on the role of the project in encouraging young people to pursue careers in engineering; and if he will make a statement.
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BIS Ministers have had ongoing discussions with representatives of the Bloodhound project over the last few years. The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, the right hon. Member for Twickenham (Vince Cable), visited the Bloodhound stand at the Big Bang Fair in March last year and I have met Richard Noble to discuss the project, most recently in May 2012. I am sure that this inspiring project will encourage many young people to find out more about engineering.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what assessment he has made of the value of the Bloodhound world land speed recent project in encouraging schools to stimulate their pupils to consider careers in engineering; and if he will make a statement.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education what assessment he has made of the value of the Bloodhound world land speed recent project in encouraging schools to stimulate their pupils to consider careers in engineering; and if he will make a statement.
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The Bloodhound SSC Programme is one of a number of enhancement and enrichment activities that schools can use to encourage more pupils to study maths and science subjects and to consider a career in engineering. It provides a unique opportunity for schools to help solve some of the design problems in building the car that I very much hope will enable the British team to beat the world land speed record.
That is a pretty positive answer. However, as defence equipment Minister, I saw time and again that the single greatest problem facing British engineering businesses is a shortage of skills. I therefore commend to my hon. Friend a report from the Engineering Employers Federation, “Skills for Growth”, which makes recommendations to ensure that young people have a
better understanding of the opportunities in engineering through careers advice and stronger links between businesses and schools.
That is a pretty positive answer. However, as defence equipment Minister, I saw time and again that the single greatest problem facing British engineering businesses is a shortage of skills. I therefore commend to my hon. Friend a report from the Engineering Employers Federation, “Skills for Growth”, which makes recommendations to ensure that young people have a
better understanding of the opportunities in engineering through careers advice and stronger links between businesses and schools.
Yes, I have seen that report, and the Government have taken action. Some 25,000 science, technology, engineering and maths ambassadors are going into schools to inspire pupils, and there are some signs of success. Over the past three years, twice as many pupils have taken triple science, and the proportion of STEM courses in university is no longer falling as it was under Labour, but rising.
This Government celebrate engineering. World-class engineering is vital for Britain’s future, and world-class engineering needs world-class engineers, so we are supporting engineering in schools, apprenticeships and universities to inspire the engineers of the future.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what support his Department is providing to the Bloodhound SSC world land speed record team; and if he will make a statement.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what support his Department is providing to the Bloodhound SSC world land speed record team; and if he will make a statement.
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The Ministry of Defence is supporting the Bloodhound project by providing three retired Typhoon jet engines from the test programme that will power the vehicle, a five-man team of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in support and an RAF pilot who is taking time off to drive it. I have recently signed a concordat with the project which provides a framework for collaboration between the MOD and the project.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many people (a) entered into and (b) completed engineering apprenticeships in the West Midlands region in each year since 1997.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, how many people (a) entered into and (b) completed engineering apprenticeships in the West Midlands region in each year since 1997.