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Local Skills Improvement Plans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to (a) support Local Skills Improvement Plans and (b) prevent duplication of those plans with Skills England.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
23 Oct 2024
Target answer date
28 Oct 2024
Answer
1 Nov 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to (a) support Local Skills Improvement Plans and (b) prevent duplication of those plans with Skills England.

  2. 28 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 1 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    Local Skills Improvement Plans (LSIPs) support the department’s aim to make technical education and training more responsive to local labour market and employer needs. Since autumn 2022, the designated employer representative bodies (ERBs) leading the LSI...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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