WESTMINSTER RADAR
Search
My MPs
Menu

Question follow-through · 12503

Higher Technical Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions Ministers and officials in her Department have had with FE colleges and universities on the profile and awareness of Higher Technical Qualifications.

answeredDepartment for Education

About this written question

A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.

Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
23 Jun 2026
Target answer date
25 Jun 2026
Answer
1 Jul 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

More questions by this MP on Education and skills

Shared topic keywords suggest a connection; they do not establish a follow-up.

Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions Ministers and officials in her Department have had with FE colleges and universities on the profile and awareness of Higher Technical Qualifications.

  2. 25 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 1 Jul 2026

    Answer published

    The department has regular engagement with higher and further education providers and their representative bodies to discuss matters of mutual interest.The department engages with these representative bodies as part of the development of policy to increas...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Engineering and Technology: Education

24 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help tackle gender imbalances in pre and post-16 academic and vocational pathways into engineering and technology careers.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Further Education: Finance

8 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of funding for further education.