Question follow-through · 16701
Skilled Workers: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage upskilling for tradespeople.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 27 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 2 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2024 · 5 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 encourage upskilling for tradespeople.
2 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2024
Answer published
The department is developing a comprehensive strategy for post‐16 education and skills, to break down barriers to opportunity, support the development of a skilled workforce and drive economic growth through our Industrial Strategy. My noble Friend, the M...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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