Question follow-through · 74973
Apprentices: Environmental Health
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of apprenticeships on increasing the environmental health workforce.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 4 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 21 Oct 2025 · 47 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of apprenticeships on increasing the environmental health workforce.
8 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Oct 2025
Answer published
Employers operating in environmental health have developed the environmental health practitioner level 6 degree apprenticeship to help them develop their workforces. Further detail about the apprenticeship can be found on the Skills England website at: ht...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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