Oral Answers to Questions

Christian Wakeford Excerpts

Wednesday 25th November 2020 Commons Chamber

[Miriam Cates (Penistone and Stocksbridge) (Con)]

What steps she is taking to promote social mobility throughout the UK.

[Christian Wakeford (Bury South) (Con)]

What steps she is taking to promote social mobility throughout the UK.

[Holly Mumby-Croft (Scunthorpe) (Con)]

What steps she is taking to promote social mobility throughout the UK.

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[Elizabeth Truss]

We know that digital skills are vital in the modern economy. We also know that this is a huge opportunity for us to level up our country. We know that take-up is particularly low among girls in areas such as computing, and that is why the digital skills boot camps are vital. They are being rolled out across the country in spring 2021 to ensure that everybody has the skills they need to succeed.

[Christian Wakeford]

Does my right hon. Friend agree that the lifetime skills guarantee is a landmark achievement in opening up opportunity for all, especially in left behind communities, such as Radcliffe, in my constituency?

[Elizabeth Truss]

My hon. Friend is absolutely right; too many people have been let down in the past by poor education. We want to make that right, through the lifetime skills guarantee, making sure that there is an entitlement to level 3 qualifications and access to four years of loan funding, for people to use over their life- time, so that everybody, right across the United Kingdom, has the skills they need to succeed.