Question follow-through · 125548
Lifts: Engineering
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to increase the number of qualified lift engineers in the UK.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 10 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 20 Apr 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to increase the number of qualified lift engineers in the UK.
14 Apr 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Apr 2026
Answer published
The Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper set out reforms to the skills system to ensure skills provision is aligned to the needs of the Industrial Strategy and supports people to train in sectors which support growth and meet priority skills needs.The...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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