Skills and Employment APPG

First Registered: 30/07/2015 • Last updated on: 10/03/2021

Note: This APPG was last registered on 10th Mar 2021. The APPG was not registered in the latest release of 2nd Jun 2021 and may be defunct.

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Cross-party coalition of parliamentarians devoted to raising the profile of skills and employment policy. Brings together Parliament, employers, and the skills sector to ensure that skills policy promotes social mobility, lifelong learning opportunities and local economic growth.

Note: All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) are informal, cross-party groups formed by MPs and Members of the House of Lords who share a common interest in a particular policy area, region or country. APPGs have no official status within Parliament.
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Recent Documents related to Skills and Employment

1. Skills Advisory Panels
20/11/2020 - Department for Education
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Found: Skills Advisory Panels Analytical Toolkit for Local Skills Analysis December 2018 2

2. Skills Advisory Panels
20/11/2020 - Department for Education
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Found: Skills Advisory Panels: Data sources November 2020 Background

3. Policy: HS2 Phase 2a information papers
11/02/2021 - High Speed Two (HS2) Limited (HS2 Ltd)
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Found: SPEED TWO PHASE 2a INFORMATION PAPER H2: SKILLS AND EMPLOYMENT Version 1.3 Last updated: 11 February 2021

4. Skills Advisory Panels: analytical toolkit
06/12/2018 - Department for Education
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Found: Skills Advisory Panels Data sources December 2018 2 Background This document is supplementary

5. Skills Advisory Panels: analytical toolkit
06/12/2018 - Department for Education
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Found: Skills Advisory Panels Analytical Toolkit for Local Skills Analysis December 2018 2 Contents

Latest Documents
Recent Speeches related to Skills and Employment

1. Prison Education and Employment Strategy
17/10/2018 - Westminster Hall

1: this House has considered prisons education and employment strategy.It is a pleasure to serve under - Speech Link
2: equally important that there should be access to skills training and basic level education? Half of Britain’s - Speech Link
3: qualifications—many do not have English and maths skills beyond those of an 11-year-old. That is quite a - Speech Link

2. Apprenticeships (Alternative English Completion Conditions and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020
12/10/2020 - Lords Chamber

1: creating employment opportunities post pandemic and support employers to meet their skills needs to maintain - Speech Link
2: apprenticeships, based on the frameworks of the sector skills councils. They were brought up to date in 2009 - Speech Link

3. Unemployment and Autism
02/07/2019 - Commons Chamber

1: emphasise the need for people to move into paid employment and for higher rates of economic activity, but - Speech Link
2: that support and understanding are the key to employment of people with autism, and that the option of - Speech Link
3: only 16% of adults with ASCs are in full-time employment, despite 77% of them wanting to work. These figures - Speech Link

4. Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Adult Education Functions) Order 2018
24/10/2018 - Grand Committee

1: Secretary of State, as set out in the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009, to the mayoral - Speech Link

5. Adult Learning and Vocational Skills: Metropolitan Borough of Dudley
01/10/2019 - Westminster Hall

1: House has considered adult learning and vocational skills training in the metropolitan borough of Dudley - Speech Link
2: House has considered adult learning and vocational skills training in the metropolitan borough of Dudley - Speech Link

Latest Speeches
Recent Questions related to Skills and Employment
1. Employment Schemes: Basic Skills
asked by: Royston Smith
17/07/2017
... numeracy or computer skills.

2. Basic Skills
asked by: Michael Tomlinson
12/02/2020
... what recent steps his Department has taken to increase the levels of literacy and numeracy throughout the UK.

3. Skills Toolkit
asked by: Anneliese Dodds
19/10/2020
... how much money from the public purse has been spent on The Skills Toolkit online learning platform in each year since the beginning of that platform.

4. Skills Toolkit
asked by: Anneliese Dodds
03/02/2021
... how many people have (a) started and (b) completed courses available in The Skills Toolkit online learning platform since it was launched on 28 April 2020.

5. Skills Toolkit
asked by: Anneliese Dodds
03/02/2021
... (ii) digital skills and (iii) maths skills of learners.

Latest Questions
Former APPG Members
John Hayes Portrait
John Hayes
Chair & Registered Contact
Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings
Joined: 11th September 2019
Departed: 10th March 2021
10 APPG Memberships
Acquired Brain Injury , Craft , Dying Well , Funerals and Bereavement , Genetic Haemochromatosis , Independent Education , Parks and Green Spaces , Publishing , Skills, Careers and Employment , Taxis
Barry Sheerman Portrait
Barry Sheerman
Vice Chair
Labour (Co-op) - Huddersfield
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 10th March 2021
18 APPG Memberships
Accounting for Growth , Air Pollution , Assistive Technology , Carbon Monoxide , Design and Innovation , Financial Technology , Global Education , Learning Disability , Loneliness , Management , Manufacturing , Miscarriages of Justice , River Thames , Skills, Careers and Employment , Sustainable Resource , Transport Safety , United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development , Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Lord Norton of Louth Portrait
Lord Norton of Louth
Vice Chair
Conservative - Life peer
Joined: 11th September 2019
Departed: 10th March 2021
4 APPG Memberships
Drug Policy Reform , Skills, Careers and Employment , University , University of Hull
Baroness Garden of Frognal Portrait
Baroness Garden of Frognal
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Life peer
Joined: 31st August 2016
Departed: 10th March 2021
11 APPG Memberships
Adult Education , Apprenticeships , Craft , Funerals and Bereavement , Further Education and Lifelong Learning , Independent Education , Modern Languages , Skills, Careers and Employment , T Levels , University , Women and Work
Lord Lucas Portrait
Lord Lucas
Officer
Conservative - Excepted Hereditary
Joined: 7th August 2020
Departed: 10th March 2021
7 APPG Memberships
Digital Skills , Diversity and Inclusion in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths , Education Technology , Hydrogen , Independent Education , Skills, Careers and Employment , T Levels
Robert Halfon Portrait
Robert Halfon
Officer
Conservative - Harlow
Joined: 11th September 2019
Departed: 10th March 2021
9 APPG Memberships
Brazil , Fair Fuel for UK Motorists and UK Hauliers , Kurdistan Region in Iraq , Poland , Romania , Serbia , Skills, Careers and Employment , Taiwan , Tamils
Emma Hardy Portrait
Emma Hardy
Officer
Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
Joined: 20th May 2020
Departed: 10th March 2021
20 APPG Memberships
Apprenticeships , Domestic Violence and Abuse , Endometriosis , First Do No Harm , Further Education and Lifelong Learning , Homelessness , Hospitality and Tourism , ITV , Maritime and Ports , Oracy , Sixth Form Education , Skills, Careers and Employment , Small and Micro Business , Special Educational Needs and Disabilities , Surgical Mesh , Teaching Profession , University of Hull , Vascular and Venous Disease , Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire , Zoos and Aquariums
Nicola Richards Portrait
Nicola Richards
Officer
Conservative - West Bromwich East
Joined: 20th May 2020
Departed: 10th March 2021
10 APPG Memberships
'Left Behind' Neighbourhoods , Antisemitism , Beer , Breast Cancer , British Sikhs , Cancer , Civil Service and Public Sector Workers , Commonwealth Games , Parkrun , Skills, Careers and Employment
Nick Fletcher Portrait
Nick Fletcher
Officer
Conservative - Don Valley
Joined: 20th May 2020
Departed: 10th March 2021
8 APPG Memberships
Down Syndrome , Electric Vehicles , Issues Affecting Men and Boys , Shared Ownership Housing , Skills, Careers and Employment , Small and Micro Business , Transport Across the North , Zoos and Aquariums
Rob Roberts Portrait
Rob Roberts
Officer
Independent - Delyn
Joined: 20th May 2020
Departed: 10th March 2021
11 APPG Memberships
Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax , Cricket , Entrepreneurship , Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency , Hockey , Hospitality and Tourism , Insurance and Financial Services , Mersey Dee North Wales , Pension Scams , Rural Health and Social Care , Skills, Careers and Employment
Nic Dakin Portrait
Nic Dakin
Co-Chair
Labour - Former Member for Scunthorpe
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Baroness Wolf of Dulwich Portrait
Baroness Wolf of Dulwich
Officer
Non-affiliated - Life peer
Joined: 11th September 2019
Departed: 5th November 2019
No other APPG Memberships
Ben Bradley Portrait
Ben Bradley
Officer
Conservative - Mansfield
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 5th November 2019
6 APPG Memberships
Football , Football Club , Fracking , Hockey , Issues Affecting Men and Boys , Sport
Bim Afolami Portrait
Bim Afolami
Officer
Conservative - Hitchin and Harpenden
Joined: 29th August 2018
Departed: 5th November 2019
6 APPG Memberships
Credit Unions , Entrepreneurship , Fair Business Banking , Financial Markets and Services , International Conservation , Renewable and Sustainable Energy
Bob Blackman Portrait
Bob Blackman
Officer
Conservative - Harrow East
Joined: 29th August 2018
Departed: 5th November 2019
35 APPG Memberships
Alevis , Antisemitism , Azerbaijan , Bangladesh , Beer , Bridge , British Hindus , British Jews , Building Communities , Commonwealth , Council of Sri Lankan Muslim Organisations UK , Dark Skies , Equitable Life Policyholders , Foreign Affairs , Heathrow Expansion and Regional Connectivity , Holocaust Memorial , Homelessness , Housing and Social Mobility , India , Indian Traditional Sciences , Internet, Communications and Technology , Israel , Nepal , Night Time Economy , Parks and Green Spaces , Pension Scams , Renters and Rental Reform , Romania , Sixth Form Education , SME (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises) House Builders , Smoking and Health , Sri Lanka , Tamils , Thalassaemia , Vulnerable Groups to Pandemics
Layla Moran Portrait
Layla Moran
Officer
Liberal Democrat - Oxford West and Abingdon
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 31st July 2019
8 APPG Memberships
AEA Technology Pensions , Cats , Conservation, Places and People , Coronavirus , Cycling and Walking , Equitable Life Policyholders , Hong Kong , Nuclear Energy
Rachel Maclean Portrait
Rachel Maclean
Officer
Conservative - Redditch
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 31st July 2019
2 APPG Memberships
Data Analytics , Women's Health
Chi Onwurah Portrait
Chi Onwurah
Officer
Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 31st July 2019
15 APPG Memberships
Africa , Angola , Bangladesh , Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Business Owners , Commonwealth , Creative Diversity , Diversity and Inclusion in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths , Engineering , Infrastructure , Internet, Communications and Technology , Jazz Appreciation , Markets , Open Banking and Payments , Scientific , Space
Heidi Allen Portrait
Heidi Allen
Officer
Liberal Democrat - Former Member for South Cambridgeshire
Joined: 31st August 2016
Departed: 18th July 2018
No other APPG Memberships
Lucy Powell Portrait
Lucy Powell
Officer
Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central
Joined: 28th September 2017
Departed: 18th July 2018
6 APPG Memberships
Conception to Age Two - First 1001 Days , Greater Manchester , Literacy , Prescribed Drug Dependence , Reuniting Britain Post-Brexit , Social Mobility
None Portrait
Neil Carmichael
Officer
 Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 2nd May 2017
10 APPG Memberships
Autism , Children , Children who need Palliative Care , Commercial Radio , Dark Skies , Malawi , Morocco , Rugby League , Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus , Veterans
Marion Fellows Portrait
Marion Fellows
Officer
Scottish National Party - Motherwell and Wishaw
Joined: 31st August 2016
Departed: 2nd May 2017
14 APPG Memberships
Alternative Lending , Autism , Fairs and Showgrounds , Financial Education for Young People , Food Banks , Global Education , Italy , Malawi , Oracy , Poland , Post Offices , Steel and Metal Related Industries , Tibet , Unconscious Bias
John Stevenson Portrait
John Stevenson
Vice Chair
Conservative - Carlisle
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 21st July 2016
9 APPG Memberships
Family Business , Food and Drink , Inheritance and Intergenerational Fairness , Key Cities , Northern Powerhouse , Nuclear Energy , Scotch Whisky , Taxation , West Coast Main Line
Baroness Sharp of Guildford Portrait
Baroness Sharp of Guildford
Vice Chair
Liberal Democrat - Retired on 31 July 2016
Joined: 30th July 2015
Departed: 21st July 2016
No other APPG Memberships
Contact Details

Registered Contact:

Sir John Hayes MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 1389.

Email: hayesj@parliament.uk

Public Enquiry Point:

Simon Kelleher, Policy Connect, 7-14 Great Dover Street, London SE1 4YR. Tel: 0207 202 8576

Email: simon.kelleher@policyconnect.org.uk

Secretariat:

Policy Connect acts as the group's secretariat. http://www.policyconnect.org.uk/

Group's Website:

http://www.policyconnect.org.uk/apgse/home

Benefits in Kind
Date
12 Feb 2020
Source
Policy Connect
Description
Policy Connect is paid by the following to act as the group's secretariat: ACCA, AELP, APM UK, CILEx, City and Guilds, CPD Standards Office, Edge Foundation, FETL, HVM Catapult, Jisc, LCBT, Learning and Work Institute, LTE Group, Metaswitch Networks, SEMTA, Shakespeare Martineau, South Thames Colleges Group, UCU, WorldSkills UK   From : 12/02/2020 To : 11/02/2021
Value
£40,501
Date
11 Jul 2019
Source
Policy Connect
Description
Secretariat   From : 11/07/2019 To : 10/07/2020
Value
£79,501
Date
11 Jul 2018
Source
Policy Connect
Description
Secretariat   From : 11/07/2018 To : 10/07/2019
Value
£79,501
Date
11 Jul 2017
Source
Policy Connect
Description
Secretariat   From : 11/07/2017 To : 10/07/2018
Value
£88,501
Financial Benefits Received
Date
10 Apr 2017
Source
City & Guilds
Value
£5,950
Date
21 Mar 2017
Source
HVM Catapult
Value
£2,500
Date
16 Mar 2017
Source
Edge
Value
£3,750
Date
15 Mar 2017
Source
ACCA
Value
£5,950
Date
2 Mar 2017
Source
Cilex
Value
£1,875
Date
1 Mar 2017
Source
OCR
Value
£6,400
Date
1 Mar 2017
Source
Semta
Value
£3,500
Date
28 Feb 2017
Source
The Manchester College
Value
£3,750
Date
25 Dec 2016
Source
OCR
Value
£3,750
Date
15 Dec 2016
Source
Hadlow College
Value
£3,750
Date
30 Nov 2016
Source
HVM Catapult
Value
£3,750
Date
25 Nov 2016
Source
KFC
Value
£5,750
Date
17 Nov 2016
Source
FAB
Value
£3,333
Date
15 Nov 2016
Source
Edge
Value
£3,750
Date
15 Nov 2016
Source
AELP
Value
£5,950
Date
14 Nov 2016
Source
ASDAN
Value
£3,750
Date
30 Sep 2016
Source
CILEX
Value
£1,875
Date
30 Sep 2016
Source
Pearson
Value
£5,950
Date
23 Sep 2016
Source
Find a Future
Value
£3,750
Date
14 Sep 2016
Source
OCR
Value
£3,750
Date
26 Jul 2016
Source
South Thames College
Value
£3,750
Date
14 Jul 2016
Source
Edge
Value
£3,750
Date
13 Jun 2016
Source
Metaswitch Networks
Value
£3,750
Date
18 May 2016
Source
OCR
Value
£3,750
Date
18 May 2016
Source
TH PR DE CON LTD
Value
£3,750
Date
31 Mar 2016
Source
CILEX
Value
£1,875
Date
17 Mar 2016
Source
Manchester College
Value
£3,750
Date
16 Mar 2016
Source
ACCA
Value
£5,950
Date
15 Feb 2016
Source
City & Guilds
Value
£5,950
Date
12 Feb 2016
Source
Further Education Trust for Leadership
Value
£3,750
Date
20 Jan 2016
Source
OCR
Value
£3,500
Date
6 Nov 2015
Source
Pearson
Value
£5,950
Date
5 Nov 2015
Source
UCU
Value
£3,750
Date
4 Oct 2015
Source
UCU
Value
£3,750
Date
30 Sep 2015
Source
OCR
Value
£3,500
Date
28 Sep 2015
Source
KFC
Value
£5,950
Date
18 Sep 2015
Source
EMFEC
Value
£3,750
Date
10 Sep 2015
Source
AAT
Value
£3,750
Date
10 Aug 2015
Source
AAT
Value
£3,750
Date
10 Aug 2015
Source
Edge
Value
£3,750
Date
24 Jul 2015
Source
CILEX
Value
£1,875
Date
22 Jul 2015
Source
Find a Future
Value
£3,750
Date
6 Jul 2015
Source
A4E
Value
£3,750
Date
23 Jun 2015
Source
Education and Training Foundation
Value
£3,750
Date
29 May 2015
Source
South Thames College
Value
£3,500
Date
29 May 2015
Source
157 Group
Value
£3,500
Date
27 Mar 2015
Source
Association of Accounting Technicians
Value
£4,500
Date
27 Mar 2015
Source
Association of Accounting Technicians
Value
£3,750
Date
20 Mar 2015
Source
Interserve
Value
£5,950
Date
20 Mar 2015
Source
The Manchester College Group
Value
£3,750
Date
12 Mar 2015
Source
Metaswitch Networks
Value
£3,750
Date
27 Feb 2015
Source
Skills Active
Value
£5,950
Date
20 Jan 2015
Source
City & Guilds
Value
£5,950
Date
20 Jan 2015
Source
Further Education Trust for Leadership
Value
£3,750