Labour questions DfE's £2.5m apprenticeship advertising spend

Takeup of apprenticeships in the first three-quarters of the year were 34% lower than the previous year.Labour has questioned why ministers are spending more than £2.5m with a single advertising agency to promote apprenticeships, when the number of people entering such schemes is dropping and the government seems to have abandoned its targets in the area.A written parliamentary question to the Department for Education (DfE) from the shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, found the depa