Christopher Pincher Backs Business Leaders on Apprenticeships

Member of Parliament for Tamworth, Christopher Pincher, has congratulated a bevy of business leaders for speaking up for the Government’s Apprenticeship programme in a letter to a national newspaper.

John Hayes MP, Minister for Skills and Lifelong Learning, is championing efforts to develop high quality Apprenticeships that can provide strivers of any age with a first class route to jobs and promotion.

The letter to the Daily Telegraph, signed by over 50 of the country’s biggest apprenticeship providers, welcomes “the Government’s focus on Apprenticeships and its efforts to guarantee the quality of Apprenticeships.”  The full text of the letter is reproduced below.

Commenting Mr. Pincher said, “Here in Tamworth we can benefit from this renewed focus on high quality on-the-job training.  Since the crash four years ago, we have seen tragically high levels of youth unemployment.

“Yet long term unemployment has fallen as the government focuses on re-balancing the economy and getting people back to work.  The Apprenticeship programme is an important component in that strategy of developing quality skills for a modern economy.

“We want to back local strivers and I am pleased Britain’s business leaders want to do the same.  I hope all local business people, and job seekers, will look carefully and this programme and give it their support.”