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Debate between Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick and Oliver Letwin(12 years ago)
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Mr Letwin
We are totally in favour of apprenticeships and of promoting them. My right hon. Friend the Member for Welwyn Hatfield (Grant Shapps) was saying —my right hon. Friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General has repeated this—that we need to ensure that we get value for taxpayers’ money and do not create a set of rules that militate against that. Within that, we encourage and support those Departments that promote apprenticeships that are consistent with the provision of value for money. That is why in my response to my hon. Friend the Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon) I pointed out that we support and encourage schemes such as that promoted by the DWP.
Ms Margaret Ritchie (South Down) (SDLP)
4. What recent progress he has made on delivering funding for big society projects.