The Business Innovation and Skills Committee have called for the creation of an apprenticeship for every £1 billion spend through public procurement projects.

The call came in the publication of a report this week by the committee, which also revealed that the government had said that it would ““push this as far as possible”.

Skills minister Matthew Hancock, said in response to the report: ““I welcome this timely and thorough investigation into apprenticeships, and will consider carefully its suggestions to help make the programme even more successful.”