Rachel Reeves hope to start the economy and save Labor’s plan to build 1.5 million new homes by practicing up to 60,000 brick, electricians, engineers and carpenters.
The £ 600m move is designed to help fill 35,000 vacancies in construction, amid warnings provided by The independent That the government’s flagship scheme is unattainable due to a shortage of workers.
It comes when the chancellor tries to end criticism of her stewardship of the economy while revealing what is expected to be the deepest cut for government departments since the austerity in her spring statement Wednesday.
Ms Reeves warned on Saturday that labor could not tax an interview with the BBC and spend our way to higher living standards and better public services.
She stands in front of a £ 20bn hole in the public finances while struggling to meet her own fiscal rules after higher borrowing and disappointing economic growth.
The government has already cut off foreign aid expenses in half to boost the defense budget and announced controversial plans for welfare cutting – which is more than £ 5 billion – but the chancellor is expected to find billions more on Wednesday.
Only health, schools and defense will be protected from further pressure on their budgets.
Ms Reeves announced her plans for the construction sector and said they were designed to “rebuild Britain … but none of this is possible without the engineers, brick, sparkle and chippies doing the work we face.”
“We have revised the planning system that holds back this country, and now we are grabbing the lack of competent construction workers,” she added.
Among the plans, approximately £ 100m will go to the ten new technical excellence colleges, while £ 165m will help other colleges to provide more construction courses.
Employers, of whom are very angry with Ms Reeves on the hike in national insurance, will have to pay for each employee from next month, will share a pot worth £ 80m to provide training.
Skills bootcamps will receive £ 100m to expand their services for new entrants to the industry, returners or those who want to improve their skills.
Government and Mark Reynolds, the executive chairman of the Construction Consultation Mace, becomes a new Mission Council for Construction Skills, the executive chairman of the construction consultation.
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said: “Skills are crucial for this government’s mission to grow the economy under our plan for change, and nowhere is it clearer than in the construction industry.
“We are being held back by the large -scale skills shortages in the construction sector, which is a major obstacle to the delivery of the growth mission.
“These measures will break barriers for thousands of young people, which help them thrive and build their local communities.”
