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Skilled Workers

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have applied for a Skills Passport; and how many of those applications have been approved.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
6 Feb 2025
Target answer date
10 Feb 2025
Answer
12 Feb 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 6 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have applied for a Skills Passport; and how many of those applications have been approved.

  2. 10 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    Some sectors and organisations use skills passports as a way of recognising accredited training relevant to that sector or organisation, for example, the recently developed Hospitality Skills Passport by UKHospitality and deployed as part of the DWP/UKH D...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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