Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the potential contribution of part-time distance learning in supporting the delivery of the recommendations in the final report from the Made Smarter Review.

The Government welcomes the independent industry led ‘Made Smarter Review’. We look forward to working with industry and colleagues, including those in the part-time distance learning sector to capitalise on the huge potential digitalisation offers to UK manufacturing highlighted in the report.