Question follow-through · 74978
Literacy: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help improve adult literacy.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 4 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 16 Sept 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help improve adult literacy.
8 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Sept 2025
Answer published
The government recognises the importance of adult literacy skills. That is why the department supports participation in English through our ‘essential skills’ entitlements funded through the adult skills fund (ASF). This provides the opportunity for fully...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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