Question follow-through · 28346
Apprentices and Training: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that apprenticeship and skills funding provides employers with adequate flexibility to fund training to address sector-specific skills shortages.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 17 Sept 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to ensure that apprenticeship and skills funding provides employers with adequate flexibility to fund training to address sector-specific skills shortages.
11 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Sept 2026
Answer published
This government is transforming the Apprenticeships Levy into a new Growth and Skills Levy in England, giving employers greater flexibility, creating more opportunities for young people, and directly supporting the Industrial Strategy. To give businesses ...
Official data retrieved 25 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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