Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Norwood Green (Lab - Life peer) Metaverse Learning, which specialises in trying to help underprivileged young people become digital apprentices - Speech Link
2: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) for Culture, Media and Sport’s work with libraries, the Department for Work and Pensions’ work on unemployment - Speech Link
3: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) This is administered by the Department for Work and Pensions through the flexible support fund. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Lab - Life peer) It would negate the need for a Department for Levelling Up because it would promote economic activity - Speech Link
2: Baroness Donaghy (Lab - Life peer) When the noble Lord, Lord Henley, was Minister at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial - Speech Link
3: Lord Mountevans (XB - Excepted Hereditary) example financial and professional services and transport. - Speech Link
4: Lord Aberdare (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Meanwhile, small employers are reluctant to take on apprentices because of the cost and bureaucratic - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Gillian Keegan (Con - Chichester) We worked together when he was Minister for children and families and I was working in the Department - Speech Link
2: Andrew Selous (Con - South West Bedfordshire) in market towns and villages where transport costs are higher, and that the difference between the sums - Speech Link
3: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) Friend is right about the importance of deprivation factors and, indeed, transport costs. - Speech Link
4: Gillian Keegan (Con - Chichester) I ask all Members to go on a visit to meet apprentices and talk about the opportunities that are available - Speech Link
5: Robert Halfon (Con - Harlow) There is an investigation by the Department for Education. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jonathan Reynolds (LAB - Stalybridge and Hyde) We have men and women from Port Talbot, Scunthorpe and Trostre who started as apprentices. - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Reynolds (LAB - Stalybridge and Hyde) It is a bad deal for workers, a bad deal for taxpayers and a bad deal for the future of our industrial - Speech Link
3: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Wealden) I am proud that my Department is involved in that work.As well as our efforts to protect our steel industry - Speech Link
4: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) lower quality steel and higher carbon steel—steel that is coming in with higher carbon emissions on transport - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) Not only have current and past generations benefited from working there, but numerous apprentices were - Speech Link
2: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) Chamber for joining it? - Speech Link
3: Graham Stuart (Con - Beverley and Holderness) It is also the right thing to do for jobs and for the maintenance of the capability for the long term - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Richard Graham (Con - Gloucester) At the moment, the situation is that the Department for Transport is really in control of the railway - Speech Link
2: Richard Graham (Con - Gloucester) for Transport and Network Rail to try to achieve the services that their constituents most value. - Speech Link
3: Theresa May (Con - Maidenhead) for Transport and the revenue risk taken by the Treasury. - Speech Link
4: Steve Double (Con - St Austell and Newquay) for Transport, Network Rail, GWR and Cornwall Council—we have all worked incredibly well together. - Speech Link
5: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) I also spent time with the managing director of Great Western Railways, his staff and his inspiring apprentices - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Eatwell (Lab - Life peer) , transport and skills, increasing private sector costs of production, particularly for SMEs. - Speech Link
2: Lord Willetts (Con - Life peer) They need not be alternatives; public investment in transport links can be a precondition of successful - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) That is currently a hugely and unduly powerful department. - Speech Link
4: Lord Londesborough (XB - Excepted Hereditary) over the next two years to increase the number of apprentices in engineering and “other key growth sectors - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) During my three years in the Department for Work and Pensions —we were in the covid pandemic for part - Speech Link
2: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) I am conscious that the Department for Work and Pensions considers the vulnerability of its claimants - Speech Link
3: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) Their record speaks for itself, including on transport. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) I wrote to the Department for Education to raise my concerns about this issue and was disappointed with - Speech Link
2: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) Friend the Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon), who used to wear a ladder badge when he was in the Department - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) She has experience of the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department for Environment, Food and - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) And will he work with the Department for Work and Pensions and his other Cabinet colleagues to ensure - Speech Link
2: Andrew Jones (Con - Harrogate and Knaresborough) What steps his Department is taking to ensure that the armed forces have the skills required for the - Speech Link
3: David Duguid (Con - Banff and Buchan) What steps his Department is taking to ensure that the armed forces have the skills required for the - Speech Link
4: Andrew Jones (Con - Harrogate and Knaresborough) I am aware that the MOD is the biggest single employer of apprentices, with more than 15,000 soldiers - Speech Link
5: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) A long time ago, when the war started, I was Transport Secretary. - Speech Link