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Register Of Apprenticeship Training Providers

EDM number 1096 in 2016-17, proposed by Mary Creagh on 21/03/2017.
Categorised under the topics of Employment, Further education, Regulation and Training.

That this House is concerned that at least 21 colleges across England failed to get onto the new Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers; notes that the new process and the trialled new approach to assessing quality was unfamiliar to all providers; further notes that the majority of failed providers answered one of the questions on quality inadequately; notes one applicant was rejected for failing one question despite recently receiving a Grade 1 from Ofsted for its apprenticeship provision; notes some new organisations with no track record of delivery are on the Register and that unsuccessful colleges now stand to lose millions of pounds in funding from the Skills Funding Agency; regrets that these colleges will miss out on the allocation of funding to deliver apprenticeships with SMEs, which for many is the majority of their delivery, and will be unable to deliver apprenticeships during the current academic year; expresses concern that the Government's new approach to registering training organisations will not raise quality of apprenticeships and will result in local colleges being unable to deliver apprenticeships with local SMEs in September 2017; urgently calls on the Secretary of State for Education to review this new approach; and further calls on the Skills Funding Agency to hold back funding available for SME delivery to allow for investment in those successful in the second round of the register.

This motion has been signed by a total of 11 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Mary Creagh21/03/2017WakefieldLabourProposed
Alan Meale22/03/2017MansfieldLabourSeconded
Ronnie Campbell22/03/2017Blyth ValleyLabourSeconded
Jim Cunningham22/03/2017Coventry SouthLabourSeconded
Peter Bottomley23/03/2017Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Roger Godsiff28/03/2017Birmingham, Hall GreenLabourSeconded
Lady Hermon29/03/2017North DownIndependentSigned
Rachael Maskell30/03/2017York CentralLabour/Co-operativeSigned
Kelvin Hopkins30/03/2017Luton NorthLabourSigned
Kate Hollern30/03/2017BlackburnLabourSigned
Bob Blackman30/03/2017Harrow EastConservativeSigned

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