Question follow-through · 3053
Adult Education: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the Adult Skills Fund to cover learning (a) primarily and (b) solely for leisure purposes.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 30 Aug 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 6 Sept 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of extending the Adult Skills Fund to cover learning (a) primarily and (b) solely for leisure purposes.
4 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Sept 2024
Answer published
The government has devolved and delegated approximately 60% of the adult skills fund (ASF) to the 9 Mayoral Combined Authorities of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region, North East, South Yorkshire, Tees Valley, West ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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