Clause 37
Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill
2:30 pm
John Hayes (Shadow Minister, Innovation, Universities and Skills; South Holland and The Deepings, Conservative)
Clause 37 requires the Secretary of State to specify apprenticeship sectors. The Government intend them to be based on the current sectoral coverage of sector skills councils which, as we have heard, are employer-led, independent organisations, whose goals are to fill skills gaps and shortages, improve productivity and the skills of everyone in the sector’s work force. The Minister spoke earlier about the scope of the sector skills councils and how that might change, as skills needs change and as skills themselves alter. How is that flexibility consistent with the clause?