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Mike Amesbury

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Monday 16th March 2020

(4 years, 8 months ago)

Ministerial Corrections
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The following is an extract from Questions to the Secretary of State for Education on 2 March 2020.
Mike Amesbury Portrait Mike Amesbury (Weaver Vale) (Lab)
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Apprenticeships are down 46% since the introduction of the levy. What will the Minister do in National Careers Week to turn that around?

Gillian Keegan Portrait Gillian Keegan
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Apprenticeships are at the heart of our vision for a world-class technical education system, and we have specifically focused on quality in the past year or so. High-quality starts have increased to 63% from 44% in the previous year. Quality is the most important thing, and we are pleased to say that the number of starts is increasing this year.

[Official Report, 2 March 2020, Vol. 672, c. 595.]

Letter of correction from the Under-Secretary of State for Education, the hon. Member for Chichester (Gillian Keegan):

Errors have been identified in the response I gave to the hon. Member for Weaver Vale (Mike Amesbury).

The correct response should have been:

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