Apprentices Standards

Lords Chamber
Affordable Housing: Supply - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Lord Whitty (Lab - Life peer) This has made social housing less attractive.In the days when both the numbers and standards of local - Speech Link
2: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) deliver against housing need; quality and sustainability; and the need to meet higher environmental standards - Speech Link
3: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) We are therefore committed to ensuring that the right skills and training are available for apprentices - Speech Link

Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
First Minister’s Question Time - Thu 25 Apr 2024

Mentions:
1: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) contrast with the record of a Tory Government that has seen, and overseen, the biggest fall in living standards - Speech Link
2: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) to remain aligned, where appropriate, with developments in European Union law and EU environmental standards - Speech Link
3: Whittle, Brian (Con - South Scotland) However, there is a severe shortage of apprentices. - Speech Link
4: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) Whittle for making a suggestion that is well worth exploring, in particular in relation to funding for apprentices - Speech Link

Select Committee

GRI0130 - A flexible grid for the future

Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024

Inquiry: A flexible Grid for the future
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Energy Security and Net Zero Committee

Found: An Employer-Provider model is where the employer of the apprentices is the main provider of on-programme

Non-Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Maritime and Coastguard Agency

Apr. 24 2024

Found: a person or persons employed on a ship under a contract of employment including all trainees and apprentices

National Audit Office
Childcare and children’s services - Apr. 24 2024
Report - Preparations to extend early years entitlement for working parents in England (PDF)

Found: DfE and the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) routinely collect

Commons Chamber
Defence Spending - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) Lady that our defence standards, particularly when it comes to our nuclear estate, are extremely high - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) There is enormous ability for apprentices and graduates to be recruited, so her constituents will be - Speech Link

Select Committee

Oral Evidence Apr. 23 2024

Inquiry: Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Industry and Regulators Committee

Found: The minimum wage is usually paid to the younger apprentices in their first year, so many apprentices

Deposited Papers

Apr. 23 2024

Found: calculator to help workers establish if the payment received from the ir emplo yer meets the mi nimum standards

Westminster Hall
Future of Rail Manufacturing - Tue 23 Apr 2024
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Kevan Jones (Lab - North Durham) Hitachi is training apprentices and increasing the skill base locally through investments in higher education - Speech Link
2: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) Those high standards are not just for the employees of Hitachi; they permeate throughout the local supply - Speech Link

Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Education

Apr. 22 2024

Found: The college monitor s quality carefully to ensure standards are maintained or improved and that the