Question follow-through · 25036
Union Learning Fund
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will review the decision to end the Union Learning Fund.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 20 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 30 Jan 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will review the decision to end the Union Learning Fund.
22 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jan 2025
Answer published
The department recognises the role that the Union Learning Fund (ULF) played in encouraging greater take up of learning in the workplace. Government funding for ULF ceased in March 2021.The Adult Skills Fund is now 60% devolved to Combined Authorities. De...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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