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registered interest false more like this
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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills more like this
answering dept id 26 more like this
answering dept short name Business, Innovation and Skills more like this
answering dept sort name Business, Innovation and Skills more like this
hansard heading Institute for Apprenticeships more like this
house id 1 more like this
legislature
25259
pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, for what reasons the responsibilities planned for the proposed Institute for Apprenticeships could not have been undertaken by the existing UK Commission for Employment and Skills. more like this
tabling member constituency Blackpool South more like this
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Gordon Marsden more like this
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is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2016-02-09more like thismore than 2016-02-09
answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The role of the Institute for Apprenticeships (IFA) will be very different to the current role and remit of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES).</p><p> </p><p>The IFA must be able to make decisions independently of Ministers and hold direct operational responsibility rather than act in an advisory capacity.</p><p> </p><p>This will require different governance arrangements, with a small Board led primarily by employers and business leaders to steer the processes and decisions that are made.</p><p>The IFA will assume functions that Government has so far undertaken in relation to apprenticeship standards and assessment plans and will operate in the context of achieving three million starts by 2020.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> more like this
answering member constituency Grantham and Stamford more like this
answering member printed Nick Boles more like this
question first answered
less than 2016-02-09T17:16:05.807Zmore like thismore than 2016-02-09T17:16:05.807Z
answering member
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label Biography information for Nick Boles more like this
tabling member
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label Biography information for Gordon Marsden more like this