Question follow-through · 44168
Minerals: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to promote training opportunities for (a) mineral processing, (b) metallurgical skills and (c) other critical minerals skills.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 3 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 14 Apr 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to promote training opportunities for (a) mineral processing, (b) metallurgical skills and (c) other critical minerals skills.
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Apr 2025
Answer published
I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for Camborne and Redruth to the answer of 25 February 2025 to Question 30538.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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