All-Party Parliamentary Group for Apprenticeships

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Link titleThe All Party Parliamentary Group for Apprenticeships (APPGA) was set up in February 2012 to "To provide a forum for parliamentarians and employers to discuss how to promote the role of high quality apprenticeships, how to ensure that apprenticeships serve as a pathway to a career and how the apprenticeship model can meet the changing skill demands from business". [1]

It is the first All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) dedicated to the advancement of apprenticeships.

Secretariat

Connect Communications, a large political communications company, acts as the groups secretariat. [2]

People

Parliamentary Officers as at July 2015

Membership as at May 2015

Lord Aberdare- Crossbencher | Lord Addington MP - Lib Dem | Jake Berry MP - Con | Gordon Birstwhistle MP - Lib Dem | Neil Carmichael MP - Con | Paul Blomfield MP - Lab | Nic Dakin MP - Lab | Michelle Donelan MP - Con | Gemma Doyle MP - Lab | Baroness Garden - Lib Dem | Matthew Hancock MP - Con | Richard Harrington MP - Con | Lord Haskel - Lab | Baroness Healy MP - Lab | Kelvin Hopkins MP - Lab | Simon Hughes MP - Lib Dem | Marcus Jones MP - Con | Lord Laird | Stephen Lloyd MP - Lib Dem | Jack Lopresti MP - Con | Jason McCartney MP - Con | Liz McInnes MP - Lab | Catherin McKinnell MP - Lab | Lord Monks - Lab | Guy Opperman MP - Con | Ian Paisley MP - DUP Chris Pincher MP - Con | David Simpson MP - DUP | Robin Walker MP - Con | Baroness Wall - Lab |[3]

Associate Sponsors

Due to the interest in delivering high quality apprenticeships, some organisations are now associate sponsors of the APPGA as of May 2015. They are as follows;

AAT | BAE Systems | Battersea Power Station | Carillion | The Creative Tech Consortium | EAL | Heathrow Airport | Microsoft | Network Rail | OCR [4]

Notes

  1. All Party Parliamentary Group for ApprenticeshipsParliament Website, accessed 30 September 2015
  2. Connect Communications SecretariatParliament Website, accessed 30 September 2015
  3. Membership List supplied to Spinwatch, 22 September 2015
  4. Sponsorship List supplied to Spinwatch, 22 September 2015