Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business) Share this | Hansard source

The Morrison government is providing record levels of funding to our vocational education and training sector to rebuild our economy and to also prepare for the future. This includes the Boosting Apprenticeship Commencements wage subsidy, as I've talked about; the Supporting Apprentices and Trainees wage subsidy; and the $1 billion JobTrainer Fund. That is, of course, the $1 billion fund that we put together with the states and territories to create around 320,000 additional places—that is, new places in the training market—that are either free or low fee. We have been working with the states and territories. All states and territories signed up to the $1 billion fund. The key to the success of this is ensuring that those training places are in areas of skills demand. In other words, people are actually training so that they can get a job. They are training in areas of demand that will get them a job. We are providing record funding to vocational education and training in Australia because, as the Prime Minister said, this is a skills led recovery. (Time expired)