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Construction: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to amend the Construction Industry Training Board’s legislative scope order to include (a) plumbing and (b) electrical work.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 8 Apr 2025
Target answer date: 22 Apr 2025
Answer: 1 May 2025 · 23 calendar days after tabling

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8 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to amend the Construction Industry Training Board’s legislative scope order to include (a) plumbing and (b) electrical work.
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 May 2025
Answer published
Plumbing and electrical works are excluded from the Industrial Training Board’s (ITBs) current legislative scope order.The 2023 independent review of the two remaining ITBs, Construction and Engineering Construction, recommended that there should be consu...

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