Question follow-through · 47169
Personal Care Services: Leeds
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of apprenticeship starts in the hairdressing sector in Leeds since 2024; and what steps she is taking to support salons to provide apprenticeships.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 23 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 1 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of apprenticeship starts in the hairdressing sector in Leeds since 2024; and what steps she is taking to support salons to provide apprenticeships.
25 Apr 2025
Target answer date
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1 May 2025
Answer published
Apprenticeships are a great way for individuals to begin or progress a successful career in the hairdressing industry.There have been over 135 starts in hairdressing and barbering apprenticeships within the Leeds local authority across the 2023/24 academi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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