HC Deb 28 January 1994 vol 236 cc405-6W
Mr. Ron Davies

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what are his objectives for the modern apprenticeships scheme.

Miss Widdecombe

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has made it clear that modern apprenticeships will

Training and enterprise council budgets and outturn London region
£ million
AZTEC CENTEC CILNTEC LETEC NLTEC NWLTEC SOLOTEC STTEC WLTEC RORUNEA Region
1991–92 Budget
Block 1 4.5 3.9 3.6 12.6 3.3 2.3 9.9 7.0 4.5 — 51.6
Block 2 3.3 3.8 2.6 10.1 3.9 1.7 4.3 8.6 2.3 0.3 40.9
Block 3 1.6 2.7 1.5 2.7 1.7 0.9 1.8 3.1 1.3 — 17.3
Block 4 0.7 1.1 0.8 1.3 0.8 0.3 1.4 1.6 0.9 — 8.9
Block 5 1.0 1.2 0.6 2.0 0.7 0.6 1.5 1.8 0.8 — 10.2
Total 11.1 12.7 9.1 28.7 10.4 5.8 18.9 22.1 9.8 0.3 128.9
1991–92 Outturn
Block 1 4.2 3.4 3.1 11.5 2.5 2.3 8.5 7.6 4.2 — 47.3
Block 2 2.2 3.5 2.0 8.2 3.6 2.1 3.6 8.6 2.1 0.1 36.2
Block 3 1.5 2.7 1.5 2.5 1.8 1.0 1.7 3.0 1.4 — 17.0
Block 4 0.4 0.7 0.4 0.9 0.2 0.2 1.0 0.6 0.2 — 4.6
Block 5 — — — — — — — — — — —
Total 8.4 10.3 7.0 23.1 8.1 5.6 14.9 19.9 7.9 0.1 105.1
1992–93 Budget
Block 1 5.2 8.1 8.9 16.1 6.3 4.3 11.2 12.4 9.3 — 81.6
Block 2 3.3 8.4 7.4 13.0 7.5 3.5 4.2 12.9 3.8 — 64.1
Block 3 1.7 4.3 2.8 2.8 2.4 1.3 2.0 3.4 1.9 — 22.6
Block 4 0.5 0.7 0.9 0.8 0.9 0.3 0.8 1.4 1.1 — 7.6
Block 5 1.2 2.8 2.2 3.3 2.0 1.3 2.0 2.8 1.9 — 19.6
Total 11.9 24.3 22.3 36.0 19.1 10.8 20.2 32.8 18.0 — 195.6
1992–93 Outturn
Block 1 4.6 7.2 8.0 15.1 5.9 4.2 11.1 10.0 8.6 — 74.7
Block 2 3.1 7.3 7.0 11.0 7.3 3.4 3.7 11.6 3.5 — 57.9
Block 3 1.6 4.3 2.6 2.7 2.4 1.3 1.9 3.2 1.9 — 22.0
Block 4 0.6 0.7 0.9 0.8 0.9 0.4 0.6 1.4 0.8 — 7.1
Block 5 1.1 2.7 2.1 3.1 1.9 1.2 1.8 2.6 1.8 — 18.3
Total 11.0 22.2 20.6 32.8 18.5 10.6 19.1 28.8 16.6 — 180.1
1993–94 Budget
Block 1 5.4 8.3 9.6 17.7 6.1 4.8 10.6 15.0 10.2 — 87.6
Block 2 3.4 8.6 7.2 12.5 6.8 3.5 4.3 13.4 4.0 — 63.7
Block 3 1.3 2.9 2.1 2.0 2.1 1.1 2.3 2.8 1.3 — 17.8
Block 4 0.5 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.5 0.5 0.8 0.8 1.2 — 6.7
Learning for Work 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.5 0.3 — 2.6
TEC Challenge 1.2 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 — 1.5
Skills Choice 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 — 0.4
Open Learning Credits 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 — 0.2
improve our economic competitiveness by increasing the number of young people qualifying to the key technician and supervisor levels. When the scheme is fully operational, it is envisaged that up to 150,000 young people in England will be in modern apprentice training at any one time. The Government want modern apprentice ships to increase to over 40,000 the number of young people reaching national vocational qualification level 3 through training in England each year—roughly tripling the current number.