division_name: Opposition Day &#8212; [19th Allotted Day] &#8212; Tax Fairness &#8212; Apprenticeships
motion: <p class="" pid="b.225.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move,</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="b.225.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House notes National Apprenticeship Week, established by the previous Government, and held from 11 to <phrase class="date" code="2013-03-15">15 March 2013</phrase>, which celebrates the value of apprenticeships, particularly in providing opportunities and developing skills; further notes the need to increase apprenticeship places; and therefore resolves that the Government uses the billions of pounds committed to public procurement to boost apprenticeships by requiring firms winning public contracts worth over &#163;1 million to offer apprenticeship opportunities, implementing the recommendation of the Fifth Report of the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee, HC 83, on Apprenticeships.</p>
  
  <p pid="b.268.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put forthwith, </i>That the Question be now put.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b.268.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">Question agreed to.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b.268.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">Main Question accordingly put.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b.268.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="b.268.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 237, Noes 292.</p>