Apprenticeships: Network Rail

Lord Jenkin of Roding Excerpts

Thursday 3rd March 2011 Lords Chamber

[Lord Jenkin of Roding]

My Lords, can I draw my noble friend’s attention to the success of the National Skills Academy for Nuclear, in which I declare an interest as its honorary president? It has successfully built up a programme of training for all levels of staff, including large numbers of apprentices, for which it has secured the support of a large part of the industry and its supply chain. This is something that might be an exemplar to other similar organisations.

[Baroness Wilcox]

My Lords, my noble friend is absolutely right. It came as a surprise to me that we now go from hairdressing to nuclear decommissioning as apprenticeships in this country, which is very worthy.