Economy: Productivity

Baroness Evans of Bowes Park Excerpts
Wednesday 8th February 2017

(7 years, 3 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Evans of Bowes Park Portrait The Lord Privy Seal (Baroness Evans of Bowes Park) (Con)
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My Lords, if we have two short questions, we can hear from the Liberal Democrat Benches and then the Labour Benches.

Lord Foster of Bath Portrait Lord Foster of Bath
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My Lords, business investment in training is vital to improved productivity. We know that the apprenticeship levy was designed to help in that, yet the Government have missed the January deadline for setting up the online service and the IFS says that it is going to give poor value for money. How is business going to benefit when it is having to cope with this mismanagement of the apprenticeship levy by the Government?