Question follow-through · 86825
Small Businesses: Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussion his Department is having with relevant stakeholders to support small and medium businesses in providing apprenticeship schemes in rural areas.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 30 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 4 Nov 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussion his Department is having with relevant stakeholders to support small and medium businesses in providing apprenticeship schemes in rural areas.
3 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Nov 2025
Answer published
Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are important to the economy and to apprenticeships; they provide valuable opportunities for younger apprentices and apprentices from disadvantaged areas. The Apprenticeship Ambassador Network (AAN) is a group of ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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