Hon CHRIS HIPKINS: The recently announced Trades and Apprenticeships Training Package included funding for a thousand additional trades academy places per year from the beginning of 2021. Those additional places build on the 2,000 additional trades academy places a year, and up to 2,000 additional trade gateway places a year that we announced late last year alongside the other initiatives to raise the profile of vocational education and training. These programmes provide an important starting point for school students to start their journey in trades and vocational education and to prepare them to move full time into vocational education and training when they leave school.