Question follow-through · 39949
Welding: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of recent trends in the levels of welding training courses available.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 20 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 7 Apr 2025 · 18 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of recent trends in the levels of welding training courses available.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Apr 2025
Answer published
The department supports learners who wish to have a career in welding through our technical education offer, with a range of high-quality qualifications and apprenticeship opportunities available at all levels. This includes the level 2 welder apprentices...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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