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'Train to Gain' Employer Training Scheme Gets a Cautious Welcome - Davey

5.13.00pm BST (GMT +0100) Thu 5th Oct 2006

Edward Davey MP for Kingston and Surbiton (photography: Liberal Democrats)

Liberal Democrat Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary, Edward Davey MP

Commenting on news that the 'Train to Gain' Employer Training Scheme will be rolled out nationally, Liberal Democrat Shadow Trade and Industry Secretary, Edward Davey MP said: "We welcome the much needed support for greater skills training of our workforce. This is vital for the UK to remain competitive and for our workforce to be given greater opportunities.

"However, given the lamentable failure of the previous Individual Learning Accounts and the National Employer Training Programme, we need to know that this new scheme will deliver the benefits intended.

"Previous schemes have failed due to poor quality control and this scheme risks suffering a similar fate."

ENDS

Notes to Editors

The Individual Learning Accounts were withdrawn following wide scale fraud.

· A study by the Institute of Fiscal Studies estimated that less than 15% of the National Employer Training Programme investment went into new training schemes.

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