Question follow-through · 4269
Qualifications
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will pause the defunding of applied general qualifications scheduled for 2025 and 2026.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 4 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 19 Sept 2024 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will pause the defunding of applied general qualifications scheduled for 2025 and 2026.
11 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Sept 2024
Answer published
In July 2024, my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education announced a short pause to the defunding of qualifications to enable a review of 16-19 qualification reforms at Level 3 and below. This ensured that 95 qualifications set to lose fun...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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