Question follow-through · 29671
Growth and Skills Levy: ICT and Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the Growth and Skills Levy enables people to retrain in (a) technology and (b) digital skills.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 6 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 21 Feb 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure the Growth and Skills Levy enables people to retrain in (a) technology and (b) digital skills.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Feb 2025
Answer published
The government is developing a comprehensive strategy for post‐16 education and skills to break down barriers to opportunity and support employers to develop the skilled workforces they need to help drive economic growth.Skills England has been establishe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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