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James Evans MS invites Jack Sergeant MS to Llandrindod’s Kiernan Structural Steel
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12/02/2025
James Evans MS has reiterated his support for apprenticeship schemes to mark National Apprenticeship Week for 2025.
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statement today, in my own personal perspective, I think that learning a skill as an apprenticeship
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holds just as much weight as holding a degree. Sometimes it's not more in my view because it's
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an awful lot harder work sometimes doing an apprenticeship. But what I'd like to raise with
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you, Minister, is in my constituency there's a business called Keen and Steel in Llandrindod
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and they're doing fantastic work of attracting apprentices from rural communities to work for
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them to get those skills and then to continue their working life. However, they are experiencing
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some difficulty with apprenticeship levy. So, would you welcome coming to visit that business
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along with me so we can discuss these problems with them directly so you can also hear that and
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take that back to your government colleagues to help inform the government policy on this
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important area of business? I thank James Evans for that. I agree learning a skill
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and a trade is of particular importance across Wales. I've often said, Presiding Officer,
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when I was on the backbenches, we should have more apprentices or those who've served
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apprenticeships in positions within the Senedd and including government as well. So, I would
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agree with him on the importance and the recognition of apprenticeships alongside the
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need for those people who choose the university route. But that's not forgetting we do have
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degree apprenticeship programmes as well and we do have other opportunities to explore that route.
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The Member points to Keen and Steel in his constituency and the apprenticeship levy.
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He will be aware of the work of the UK Government around the new growth in skills levy. The detail
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of that is still being worked through but, of course, I'd like to hear the views of Welsh
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businesses and Welsh learning providers around that, the thinking around the apprenticeship
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levy. I was very pleased to see, Presiding Officer, last year, I think in October, Keen and
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Steel's announcement of an expansion within his constituency supported by £140,000 of Welsh
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Government money to support that expansion, creating 39 new jobs, including five apprentices
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in the space of construction and infrastructure and the steel needed
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around that. As I say, Presiding Officer, jobs and green growth is a key priority for this
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Government. It's that type of work that will help deliver against that. I'll certainly consider
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coming to the Member's constituency to hear directly from the business and apprentices
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themselves when my diary allows.
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