Roberta Blackman-Woods – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Roberta Blackman-Woods on 2016-10-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to introduce monitoring mechanisms to ensure that increased numbers of construction industry apprenticeships do not have an effect on the quality of apprenticeship training.

Robert Halfon

The training that is delivered for apprentices is monitored by Ofsted and the Skills Funding Agency, which set minimum standards for achievement rates. Both organisations have intervention regimes in place if training falls short of minimum requirements.