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Refugees: Employment and Training

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what tailored support she plans to provide to refugees to access (a) training and (b) employment after the closure of the Refugee Employment Programme in June 2025.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 9 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 11 Dec 2024
Answer: 17 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

9 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what tailored support she plans to provide to refugees to access (a) training and (b) employment after the closure of the Refugee Employment Programme in June 2025.
11 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Refugee Employability Programme (REP) was designed as a time-bound programme. It will come to a natural end in June 2025 in line with the contract delivery timelines.All refugees will continue to have access to mainstream services to support their tra...

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