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Thursday Volume 526 31 March 2011 No. 143 HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) Thursday 31 March 2011 £5·00 © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2011 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Parliamentary Click-Use Licence, available online through The National Archives website at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/our-services/parliamentary-licence-information.htm Enquiries to The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU; e-mail: [email protected] 497 31 MARCH 2011 498 Mr Hayes: That is a most welcome suggestion. I am House of Commons perhaps known for my understatement, rather than my overstatement, but I do not think we can speak too Thursday 31 March 2011 loudly or clearly about apprenticeships, and that information is vital if we are to engage the businesses to create the prosperity we seek and build the opportunities we want. The House met at half-past Ten o’clock Andrew Selous: Is my hon. Friend aware of the scale PRAYERS of the challenge facing the automotive industry, with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers saying that we need at least 10,000 apprenticeships a year for the [MR SPEAKER in the Chair] United Kingdom to be at the forefront of the electric vehicle industrial revolution that is about to occur? Oral Answers to Questions Mr Hayes: Yes, indeed. We recently announced that we are going to work with all the interested parties in the industry to bring about the kind of technological BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS advance to which my hon. Friend refers. This is a real potential area for growth and we are determined, with the industry, to make that growth happen. The Secretary of State was asked— Apprentices Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield) (Lab/Co-op): The Minister will know that we are all in favour of 1. Andrea Leadsom (South Northamptonshire) (Con): apprenticeships these days—we welcome the coalition What plans he has to encourage small and medium- to the cause—but the fact is that this is all something of sized businesses to take on apprentices. [49964] a fig leaf, given that all the other educational policies seem to be falling apart. Higher education is in meltdown, 5. Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon) (Con): What but all we hear about is apprenticeships and the university plans he has to encourage small and medium-sized technical colleges. This is a fig leaf covering up the lack businesses to take on apprentices. [49968] of policy across the whole education and skills debate. 21. Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire) (Con): What plans he has to encourage small and medium- Mr Hayes: I would hardly plead guilty for my advocacy sized businesses to take on apprentices. [49987] of the causes that the hon. Gentleman highlights, but I can assure him that this is part of a coherent and The Minister for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong holistic approach that means that everyone will get their Learning (Mr John Hayes): Last week, this Government chance of glittering prizes. announced a new £75 million programme of training and other targeted support focused specifically on small and Alison McGovern (Wirral South) (Lab): The Minister medium-sized enterprises to help them access advanced will know that the number of apprenticeships in this and higher-level apprenticeships. We also announced country was just 65,000 in 1996. It has increased to on Monday that we will be working to reduce bureaucracy nearly 280,000 now, but young people face worse for SMEs, making it easier for them to take on those unemployment than ever and growth is down. He will new apprentices. not set a target for the number of apprenticeships, but Andrea Leadsom: Will my hon. Friend join me in what will he do if the number falls back? congratulating the Silverstone motorsport college on its outstanding Ofsted report and on the fact that 50% of Mr Hayes: The hon. Lady rightly identifies that its motorsport technicians get apprenticeships in this apprenticeships and pre-apprenticeship training can provide high-tech, innovative industry? What more can he do to an important vehicle to bring people from disengagement support increasing apprenticeships in this area? to engagement. That is why my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education has cemented the work Mr Hayes: In anticipation of my hon. Friend’s question, done in the Budget to create those extra apprenticeships and because I know of her passionate interest in and for people moving from the very circumstances the hon. advocacy of this subject, I have asked the National Lady describes to the skills and success they deserve. Apprenticeship Service to take further the work that I know she wants to be completed on offering a new Mr Andrew Love (Edmonton) (Lab/Co-op): The motor race technician qualification. We will do that Government’s flagship policy on employment and small work, because we understand the points she makes, the businesses is the national insurance holiday for all companies value of that industry and its importance to our whole outside London and the south-east. We heard only country. yesterday from Treasury officials that that has created Justin Tomlinson: I strongly welcome plans to expand only thousands of jobs, so is it time to go back to the the apprenticeships scheme further. The biggest barrier drawing board on this policy? to the participation of small businesses is the lack of information, so will my hon. Friend consider moves to Mr Hayes: I learned long ago never to pitch above my include promotional material in the annual business pay grade or outside my purview, and I rather suspect rates mailing? that that question might be both. 499 Oral Answers31 MARCH 2011 Oral Answers 500 Low-carbon Technologies World Trade 2. Tony Lloyd (Manchester Central) (Lab): What 3. Stephen Metcalfe (South Basildon and East Thurrock) steps he is taking to promote expenditure on the (Con): What steps he is taking to increase United manufacture of low-carbon technologies in each Kingdom Trade and Investment’s share of world trade. region. [49965] [49966] The Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and and Skills (Mr Mark Prisk): The Government are Skills (Vince Cable): UK trade increased by 55% in real supporting a range of projects across the country including terms between 1998 and 2008. None the less, the relative offshore wind, nuclear manufacturing, low-carbon vehicles share of world trade declined from 5.7% to 3.9%. Our and marine energy. recent trade and investment White Paper sets out how we will assist exporters, focusing UKTI and new trade Tony Lloyd: It is self-evident that if every part of this finance products on small and medium-sized enterprises. country is to take advantage of the strong future in low-carbon technologies, we need investment in skills and research and, of course, access to finance. We heard Stephen Metcalfe: A businessman in my constituency some platitudes in answer to the first set of questions has traded successfully in north Africa for many years, from the Minister’s colleague, but will the Minister tell but now does not know when his invoices will be paid, us in hard terms what will be done to ensure that young which affects his cash flow and business viability. Will people get those skills, that we have the research and my right hon. Friend consider introducing some form that we have access to a finance system that knows that of payment guarantee scheme that will give SMEs the technologies north of Watford are worth investing in? confidence to increase their share of world trade in the knowledge that they will be paid for it? Mr Prisk: I refer the hon. Gentleman to what the Budget set out very clearly last week, but let me give Vince Cable: I am aware of the firm that my hon. him the tangible example he requests. The technology Friend describes and of its difficulties in Libya. If innovation centre for advanced manufacturing is designed companies are operating in difficult markets, such as specifically to ensure that clusters where we have excellence Libya, they are advised to take out trade insurance. can be enabled. It will help Rotherham, Coventry, Where the market cannot provide that, the Export Sedgefield, Bristol, Strathclyde and Redcar. I hope he Credits Guarantee Department will underwrite it. We welcomes that support. are expanding the range of ECGD products and the Treasury has authorised payments to companies in Dan Rogerson (North Cornwall) (LD): Given the Libya for which insurance is due. consultation on changes to feed-in tariffs and the effect it might have had on decisions about solar investment, Mr Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West) (Lab/Co-op): will the Minister work with his colleagues in the Department Over the next four years, UKTI is set to have its budget of Energy and Climate Change to examine what might cut by some 17%. The schemes most commended by the be done to consider alternative ways of stimulating the CBI are passport to export and gateway to global manufacturing and assembly of solar equipment in this growth. Will the Minister give an assurance that among country? the budget cuts those services will be protected? Mr Prisk: Solar power is important and I am well Vince Cable: I can assure the hon. Gentleman that aware that it is of paramount importance in Cornwall. UKTI is capable of and committed to providing an We are working with our ministerial colleagues, but I increased range of activities and a better service even would welcome any contribution from my hon.
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