Question follow-through · 38193
Defence: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to help tackle the skills shortage in the defence workforce.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 13 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 29 Mar 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
13 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department is taking steps to help tackle the skills shortage in the defence workforce.
17 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Mar 2025
Answer published
This government recognises the critical role that a skilled workforce plays in supporting national defence, including meeting the needs of the armed forces and of a vibrant, innovative and competitive defence industry.The department funds a range of high ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many state schools she has visited since 5 July 2024.
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22 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of adding defence as a subject in the national curriculum.
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28 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 28 April 2025 to Question 46070 on Schools: Domestic Visits, how many private schools she has visited since 5 July 2025.
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