Mark Garnier MP has today welcomed new statistics that show a record number of people in Wyre Forest started apprenticeship in 2011/12.
The data also has provisional results for the number of apprenticeship starts in the first quarter of 2012/13 - in April to June 2012, 310 people started apprenticeships in just three months.
In the last financial year, 1,080 people started an apprenticeship in Wyre Forest - an increase of 135 per cent compared to the last year of the Labour Government.
Mark Garnier MP commented:
'With the world around us changing, we will only succeed in the global race when everyone is given the chance to reach their full potential. Conservative policies have dramatically increased the number of apprenticeships on offer compared to the last Labour Government.
'These record levels of apprenticeships are fantastic news for our country, for Wyre Forest, and most of all for the people whose lives are being transformed by the opportunities they offer.'