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Education and Skills Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Layard (Labour) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 1 July 2008. It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bills on Education and Skills Bill.

I am grateful to the Minister for that. On the question of the employer subsidy, we have a situation where only 30 per cent of large firms provide apprenticeships. It is not just small firms: two-thirds of large firms are not providing apprenticeships. We should not think that a pilot scheme just on small firms will necessarily deal with the problem.