Nicholas Dakin
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(8 years, 7 months ago)
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Nick Boles
My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. One of the great opportunities in the apprenticeships programme is that apprenticeships are all age. For women who have perhaps taken a career break, or just want to change their profession, an apprenticeship is an opportunity to gain new skills while also earning an income so that they can forge a great career.
Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe) (Lab)
When will the Government be publishing guidelines on how skills budgets might be devolved in those areas where that devolution is being looked at?
Nick Boles
That will depend on when exactly the devolution deal is done. As the hon. Gentleman will be aware, in our own area of Greater Lincolnshire that deal is reasonably well advanced; in other parts of the country, the deals are less well advanced. Fundamentally, it is pretty simple: we want authorities to be commissioning from their local colleges the adult skills provision that they believe their area can benefit from.