Hon CHRIS HIPKINS: More good news—as well as the free training for learners, we're backing employers to keep their apprentices in work through their training through the Apprenticeship Boost scheme. Apprenticeship Boost provides a subsidy for employers of $1,000 a month for the first year of an apprentice's work and $500 a month in the second year. Since the Apprenticeship Boost was rolled out in August last year, over 10,000 employers have signed up and received almost $97 million worth of subsidies for 21,000 apprentices. In the second half of last year, it roughly doubled the number of apprentice new starts signed up compared to the year before.