Question follow-through · 37517

Personal Care Services: Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the impact of informal and disguised employment in the beauty sector on the number of apprenticeship places available in hairdressing and beauty.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
11 Mar 2025
Target answer date
13 Mar 2025
Answer
19 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the impact of informal and disguised employment in the beauty sector on the number of apprenticeship places available in hairdressing and beauty.

  2. 13 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 19 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    Apprenticeships are jobs with training, and it is for employers in the hair and beauty sector to decide how they use apprenticeships to meet their skills needs.The sector has developed several apprenticeship standards, including the level 2 hairdressing p...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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