To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how she plans to use Immigration Skills Charge funding to (a) support skills funding for priority sectors and (b) upskill the domestic workforce.
Answered on
9 June 2025
As set out in the Immigration White Paper, the government will increase the Immigration Skills Charge for the first time since its introduction, by 32% to bring the Immigration Skills Charge rates in line with inflation. Further details on how skills funding in future years will be allocated will be set out in due course, following the Spending Review on 11 June 2025.
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Department for Education