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£140m apprenticeship boost
The Government is to invest £140 million to create a further 35,000 apprenticeships in 2009-10, the Prime Minister has said.
The PM made the announcement on a visit to Rolls Royce in Derby with Skills Secretary John Denham and Education Secretary Ed Balls. The new investment will take the total number of Government-funded apprenticeships to more than a quarter of a million.






