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Debate between Mike Kane and Gordon Marsden
Monday 24th June 2019
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Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South) (Lab)
My felicitations on your first decade in office, Mr Speaker. Onwards and upwards!
Gordon Marsden
Indeed. We are hearing about the ups and downs of funding for apprenticeships, but the National Audit Office told the FE Ministers in March in no uncertain terms that there was a clear risk that the apprenticeship programme would now be financially unsustainable. The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education has said that it could be overspent by £0.5 billion this year. The Minister told FE Week in January that she thought that the apprenticeship budget would be “alright until July”. July is next week. Does she still think that?