Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he expects the Building Services Engineering Technician apprenticeship scheme to begin; and if he will make a statement.

The Institute for Apprenticeships is an independent body with responsibility for the development and approval of apprenticeship standards. I have asked the Institute to write to The hon. Member for Liverpool Riverside directly responding to this question regarding the Building Services Engineering Technician apprenticeships scheme.

A copy of that response will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses when it is available.