UK Shipbuilding Skills Taskforce

(asked on 23rd March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the timescale for fully establishing the new Shipbuilding Skills Taskforce.


Answered by
Alex Burghart Portrait
Alex Burghart
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 1st April 2022

The UK Shipbuilding Skills Taskforce was announced as part of the National Shipbuilding Strategy Refresh on Thursday 10 March 2022. It will run for approximately 18 months. It aims to develop and implement a future-focused skills strategy for shipbuilding to ensure that the UK’s shipbuilding industry has its workforce needs met today and in the future.

Applications are now open for a chair and members for the taskforce. These will close on 3 April 2022 for the Chair, and 17 April for members.

We anticipate that the chair and members will be announced in May, with the first meeting to take place in early summer 2022.

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