Question follow-through · 95662

Crafts: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of heritage skills training to support employment and regeneration in rural and post-industrial areas.

answeredChris LawDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
1 Dec 2025
Target answer date
3 Dec 2025
Answer
7 Jan 2026 · 37 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 1 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of heritage skills training to support employment and regeneration in rural and post-industrial areas.

  2. 3 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 19 November 2025 to PQ 89153 regarding investment in skills to support technical routes and work-based learning in England, including heritage skills training. At Budget, the Government announced a package o...

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