Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 March 2017.
Robert Halfon
Minister of State (Department of Education) (Apprenticeships and Skills)
12:00,
20 March 2017
My hon. Friend is exactly right. I congratulate the hairdressing academy on its support of apprenticeships. We now have 900,000 apprentices—the record highest number ever—and we have 784,000 starts. We are building the apprenticeship nation, and giving those young people a ladder of opportunity.