Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the HGV skills boot camp.

A statistical release published in November 2023 showed that there were 5,710 learner starts in total in HGV Skills Bootcamps between April 2022 and March 2023. Sustained provision of Skills Bootcamps in HGV driving has been welcomed by the road freight sector, which has seen high levels of ongoing demand for these training places. This was also evidenced in an implementation report on delivery in the 2021/22 financial year, which showed that Skills Bootcamps in HGV driving was oversubscribed in comparison with other sectors. Further insights into the effectiveness of Skills Bootcamps in HGV driving will be set out in the publication of our completions and outcomes report for Skills Bootcamps delivery later this year for the 2021/22 financial year.