Question follow-through · 22264

Apprentices and Further Education: Young People

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage more young people into (a) further education and (b) apprenticeships.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 7 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 9 Jan 2025
Answer: 15 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

7 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage more young people into (a) further education and (b) apprenticeships.
9 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jan 2025
Answer published
Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.The government is developing a comprehensive strategy for post‐16 education and skills, to break down barriers to opportunity, support the development of a skilled ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Possible follow-up questions

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15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to tackle anti-semitism in schools.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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3 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help ensure that there is adequate support for parents learning how to care for a child with special needs and disabilities.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Higher Education: National Security

4 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to prevent higher education institutions from targeted influence from hostile states.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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4 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve meals in schools for SEN children.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Schools: Closures

10 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many schools have closed in the last five years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Schools: Buildings

11 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure the (a) safety and (b) suitability of older school buildings.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Construction: Apprentices

11 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help increase the number of (a) women and (b) under-represented groups among construction apprentices.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Religion: Education

11 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential implications for her policies of the recommendations of Ofsted’s subject report on religious education, published in April 2024.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Teachers: Training

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13 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of school sensory equipment; and what steps she is taking to ensure the adequacy of that equipment.

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26 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she has taken to reduce frequent absences of children from school.