Lifetime Skills Guarantee and Post-16 Education Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Lifetime Skills Guarantee and Post-16 Education

Neil Hudson Excerpts
Thursday 1st October 2020

(4 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Gavin Williamson Portrait Gavin Williamson
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If the hon. Gentleman would write with the details on that case, I would be happy to look into it.

Neil Hudson Portrait Dr Neil Hudson (Penrith and The Border) (Con) [V]
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I really welcome the lifetime skills guarantee from the Government and firmly believe it will increase access to and flexibility of learning in both further and higher education for learners young and old. As my right hon. Friend knows, Newton Rigg College in my constituency is currently the subject of a strategic review by the Further Education Commissioner. As we look to secure a new organisation to take over the college, does my right hon. Friend agree that, if this review is successful in securing the future of the college, fantastic colleges such as Newton Rigg will play a key role in delivering the Government’s lifetime skills agenda, offering training, upskilling and levelling up across Cumbria and the wider United Kingdom?