Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of people expected to take part in the emerging skills electrification project in 2023.

The Skills Electrification Project was part of the Emerging Skills Projects, which were pilot projects funded by the department to identify future skills needs and develop high-quality modular courses to help address future skills gaps in key sectors.

The Skills Electrification Project, as well as the other Emerging Skills Projects, were out to tender in 2021 and were developed and run by the High Value Manufacturing Catapult.

The projects completed at the end of March 2022. Training material and modules are still available on the High Value manufacturing Catapult’s website, which can be found at: https://emergingskillsproject.com/electrification-units/.