Question follow-through · 49590
Lifelong Learning: North of England
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking with local businesses to ensure that (a) schools and (b) colleges in the north of England have adequate resources to provide effective lifelong learning opportunities.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 30 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 May 2025
- Answer
- 8 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking with local businesses to ensure that (a) schools and (b) colleges in the north of England have adequate resources to provide effective lifelong learning opportunities.
8 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 May 2025
Answer published
This government recognises the value of lifelong learning and creating opportunities for individuals across their working lives. That is why the department has committed to introducing the Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE), a transformation to the exist...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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