Question follow-through · 16672
Energy: Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to expand (a) skills training and (b) apprenticeship schemes in the (i) renewable energy and (ii) energy efficiency sectors.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 27 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 29 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 6 Dec 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to expand (a) skills training and (b) apprenticeship schemes in the (i) renewable energy and (ii) energy efficiency sectors.
29 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Dec 2024
Answer published
The government is committed to the UK becoming a Clean Energy Superpower, achieving clean power by 2030 and net zero carbon emissions by 2050.The government is working to ensure that the current and future skills system in England supports workers to retr...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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