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Unemployment: Young People

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UK Border Security: 30 November
Monday 28th November 2011

(13 years ago)

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Lord Strathclyde Portrait Lord Strathclyde
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My Lords, there will be time for both Peers if we have the noble Lord, Lord Davies, and then the noble Lord, Lord Walton.

Lord Davies of Coity Portrait Lord Davies of Coity
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My Lords, more than 50 years ago, when I was serving my apprenticeship, the industrial training boards had a levy and grant system that ensured that all small and medium-sized businesses produced apprentices or paid the levy if those businesses poached skilled men from the big companies. Why should we not reintroduce that system?

Lord Freud Portrait Lord Freud
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My Lords, we clearly need to rebuild the apprentice structure in this country—or at least build it, as was never particularly strong compared with countries such as Germany. We are very actively looking at how best to do that.

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