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    <name>Estimates Replies</name>
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      <name>Skills Training</name>
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          <heading>Skills Training</heading>
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        <name>In reply to Mr BELL</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Mount Gambier</electorate>
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          <question date="2021-09-23">
            <name>Skills Training</name>
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          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="4844">Mr BELL (Mount Gambier)</by> (4 August 2021).  (Estimates Committee B)</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="3124" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. D.G. PISONI</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Unley</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Innovation and Skills</name>
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          <question date="2021-09-23">
            <name>Skills Training</name>
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            <by role="member" id="3124">The Hon. D.G. PISONI (Unley—Minister for Innovation and Skills):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>This strategy led to an increase in apprentices and trainees over 2020.</inserted>
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          <inserted>The $16 million VET Continuity package, which concluded June 2021, supported 92 RTOs contracted by the Department of Innovation and Skills to continue the delivery of training through COVID-19.</inserted>
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          <inserted>This investment enabled RTOs to develop new delivery models, retrain and upskill staff and access new technologies.</inserted>
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