Question follow-through · 52464

Unemployment: Rural Areas

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential causes of people being not in employment, education or training in rural areas.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
14 May 2025
Target answer date
21 May 2025
Answer
28 May 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 14 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential causes of people being not in employment, education or training in rural areas.

  2. 21 May 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 28 May 2025

    Answer published

    The government is determined to break down barriers to opportunity for all young people and transform their life chances, including those in rural areas and the wider area of Cornwall.Young people are entitled to participate in education and training up t...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Adoption

5 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve therapeutic continuity for adoptive families.

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Pupils: Discipline

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Multi-academy Trusts: Inspections

5 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department plans to take to enable the inspection of multi academy trusts.

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Student Unions: Risk Assessment

2 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of risk assessments for Students' Union activities.

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Student Unions and Universities

2 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to review the legal duty of care between universities and Students' Unions.

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Family Hubs: Digital Technology

17 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to help (a) raise the profile and (b) increase levels of use of the Best Start digital service.

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Pre-school Education: Finance

17 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the policy paper entitled Giving every child the best start in life, published on 7 July 2025, what the terms of the review into fairer funding for early years will be.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Young People: Cornwall

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number and proportion of young people aged 16 to 24 who are not in education, employment or training in (a) Cornwall and (b) Camborne and Redruth constituency

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Children in Care: Camborne and Redruth

29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve the position of children in social care in Camborne and Redruth constituency.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Children: Community Development

9 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve community (a) understanding and (b) acceptance of (i) residential and (ii) support services for vulnerable children (A) in the community and (B) in the criminal ju

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Children: Social Services

9 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will launch a public awareness campaign to support the integration of children’s social care services into local communities.