Seven and a half million training places are to be created in an attempt to fulfil the government's promise of ‘British jobs for British workers’.

The plan, which will be rolled out during the next three years, will include 120,000 new apprenticeships for the under-25s and 30,000 places for older workers.

There will also be an extra 95,000 places for people who don't have five good GCSEs, to enable them to get those or equivalent vocational qualifications.

There are also plans to increase the number of places on level three courses - the equivalent of A-levels. They will increase by 310,000 by the end of the decade.

Many of these courses are intended to be part-funded by employers through the ‘train to gain’ initiative.

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