Question follow-through · 92492

Large Goods Vehicle Drivers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps they are taking to increase skills and training opportunities to become HGV drivers.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
18 Nov 2025
Target answer date
20 Nov 2025
Answer
26 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps they are taking to increase skills and training opportunities to become HGV drivers.

  2. 20 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 26 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    The government offers a range of skills training which can be used to support the HGV sector. This includes apprenticeships such as the Urban Driver and Large Goods Vehicle (LGV) driver C + E standards, Skills Bootcamps, and sector-based work academy prog...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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