Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jack Brereton and Greg Smith

Monday 11th December 2023 Commons Chamber

[Jack Brereton (Stoke-on-Trent South) (Con)]

11. What steps her Department is taking to help ensure that tertiary and technical education providers work with businesses to meet local skills needs.

[Greg Smith (Buckingham) (Con)]

16. What steps her Department is taking to help ensure that tertiary and technical education providers work with businesses to meet local skills needs.

[The Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education (Robert Halfon)]

We are transforming skills through our local skills improvement plans, backed by £165 million and supported by business, further education and higher education, and though a £300 million investment in institutes of technology, which are collaborations between business, higher education and further education to revolutionise our tertiary education offering.