Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, with reference to the Skills Mission announced in the Levelling Up the United Kingdom White Paper, if he will publish how many of the 200,000 more people successfully completing high-quality skills training will be in (a) Hemsworth constituency, (b) Wakefield local authority and (c) Yorkshire and Humber region.

In addition to 200,000 more people successfully completing high-quality skills training annually by 2030, the skills mission commits to this increase being driven by 80,000 more people completing courses in the ‘lowest skilled areas’.

The metrics through which progress will be measured, including the geographical coverage, are set out in Figures 15 and 16 in the Technical Annex to the White Paper. All the metrics relating to the skills mission will be available at the local authority level. Further, a combined measure of achievements in Level 4 and 5 skills training across the Further Education and Higher Education sectors is under development, and the Department for Education will also monitor broader measures of private employers’ investment in training.