Clause 15
Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill
9:45 am
Siôn Simon (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills; Birmingham, Erdington, Labour)
Existing apprenticeships are all that we are talking about. There is no question of reclassifying anything that is not currently an apprenticeship as an apprenticeship. The regulations will simply specify the various kinds of vocational training linked to employment that can be apprenticeships and define the existing apprenticeships as apprenticeships until transition. Those matters require regulation because the legislation does not exist.