AN MP is showing his support to bring £50 million funding to improve workforce skills.

Stephen Metcalfe, MP for South Basildon and East Thurrock, is supporting a National Consortium of Colleges and Providers (NCCP) campaign to alert British businesses to the potential funding available to provide basic literacy and numeracy training in the workplace.

Some of the biggest names in Basic Skills provision have launched the major national campaign, named For Business, For Life.

Together, as the NCCP, they are reaching out to business leaders in every sector to tell them about the advantages of their employees receiving training in English and maths.

Stephen Metcalfe said: “It is so important that employers are made aware of every opportunity available to help benefit and improve their workforces.

“The training and improving of these skills will not only benefit businesses, but also perform a huge social good to people up and down the country, who for one reason or another have fallen out of step with some of the most basic of life skills.

“I encourage all interested employers to visit the NCCP website at http://www.ncc.ac.uk/ and have a look at this incredible opportunity.”