To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what his estimated total cost to the public purse is of the national retraining scheme.
Answered on
14 January 2019
The National Retraining Scheme, which was announced in the Autumn Budget 2017, will support adults to retrain as the economy changes.
The Autumn Budget 2018 allocated £100 million of new government funding for the testing and development of the National Retraining Scheme as well as rolling out initial elements of the scheme for first users in 2019.
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Department for Education
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