Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how the Government made its decision that the four T-level routes of Transport and Logistics, Sales, Marketing and Procurement, Social Care and Protective Services will be delivered without any classroom-based learning; and what evidence supports that decision.

Following extensive analysis and stakeholder engagement, the Independent Panel on Technical Education led by Lord Sainsbury, identified that four technical routes (Transport and Logistics, Sales, Marketing and Procurement, Social Care and Protective Services) would be better suited to delivery via work-based training (apprenticeships), rather than classroom-based provision such as T levels. The government accepted their recommendation and these routes formed the basis for developing the occupational maps, which are now owned by the Institute for Apprenticeships.