Cross-Industry Construction Apprenticeship Task Force

EDM number 1578 in 2008-09, proposed by David Anderson on 02/06/2009.
Categorised under the topics of Construction industry and Training.

That this House supports the work of the Cross-Industry Construction Apprenticeship Task Force (CCATF); further supports its aim to reinvigorate the culture and ethos of training in the construction industry; accepts the intrinsic value of apprenticeships to young people and to the construction industry; notes the imminent skills shortage affecting the construction industry; recognises that there are currently over 3,000 displaced apprentices in the United Kingdom; further recognises the work of the CCATF in bringing industry together to effect a solution to the current crisis; and calls on the Government to help create an environment conducive to the success of apprenticeships in the construction industry.

This motion has been signed by a total of 84 MPs.