Question follow-through · 94071

Pupils: Work Experience

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of pupils who completed two weeks of work experience in each of the last three years.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
24 Nov 2025
Target answer date
26 Nov 2025
Answer
11 Dec 2025 · 17 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 24 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of pupils who completed two weeks of work experience in each of the last three years.

  2. 26 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    The department does not hold published national data on the number of pupils who completed two weeks of work experience in the last three years. Schools currently report on whether pupils have had an experience of a workplace rather than the duration of t...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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