Question follow-through · 25967
Construction: Skilled Workers
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his Department's polices of the Construction Industry Training Board's decision to end the use of Construction Skills Certification Schem
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 22 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 13 Feb 2025 · 22 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential implications for his Department's polices of the Construction Industry Training Board's decision to end the use of Construction Skills Certification Schem
24 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Feb 2025
Answer published
Construction Skills Certification Scheme Limited is the organisation responsible for providing cards to individuals working on construction sites. The Construction Industry Training Board has not ended the use of Construction Skills Certification Scheme (...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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