Question follow-through · 10908
Higher Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help support people to transition from level three qualifications to higher levels.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 23 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 28 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 1 Nov 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Education and skills
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- Children: Communication Skills · 5 Dec 2024
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Recorded timeline
23 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help support people to transition from level three qualifications to higher levels.
28 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Nov 2024
Answer published
Skills are crucial to economic growth, with a third of productivity improvement over the last two decades explained by improvements to skills levels. However, between 2017 and 2022, skills shortages in England doubled to more than half a million and now a...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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