To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many additional people are targeted to complete high-quality skills training as set out in the Levelling Up in the United Kingdom White Paper for each year to 2030.
Answered on
14 March 2022
The mission of 200,000 additional people completing high-quality skills training will focus on increasing the number of adults (those aged 19 and over) completing high-quality skills training, including science, technology, engineering, and mathematics courses and apprenticeships.
The department knows that successfully completing these courses improves people’s earnings and life chances and helps them get good jobs.
The department already has a range of high-quality training offers available to adults across every region of the country, including Skills Bootcamps, the free courses for jobs offer, as well as access to free courses in English, mathematics, and basic digital skills. Reforms to the skills and further education system are improving quality and driving up access further.
Meeting the mission will depend on the national government, mayoral combined authorities, local authorities, employers and skills providers working together.
The missions are rolling decade-long endeavours and will be reviewed periodically by the UK government.