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Tattooing: Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to introduce an apprenticeship standard for tattoo artists.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
24 Jan 2025
Target answer date
29 Jan 2025
Answer
31 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 24 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to introduce an apprenticeship standard for tattoo artists.

  2. 29 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 31 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    This is a matter for the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education. I have asked its Chief Executive, Jennifer Coupland, to write to the hon. Member for Christchurch, and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Parkfield School Christchurch: Closures

22 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to (a) sell or (b) transfer the site of Parkfield school in Hurn when it closes in July; and whether the premises will be retained for educational use.

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Highcliffe School: Buildings

30 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his Department's planned timetable is for the replacement of defective temporary buildings at Highcliffe School to be completed; and what guidance her Department has issued on the removal from use of life-

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Parkfield School Christchurch

3 Nov 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to dispose of the redundant site of the former Parkfield School at Hurn; and what estimate she has made of the (a) security and (b) opportunity costs of the premises remaining unused.