Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to ensure that bodies responsible for the local skills improvement plans have received guidance on how to prepare those plans.

Employer representative bodies who are designated to lead the development of a Local Skills Improvement Plan will be given statutory guidance which will focus on the process by which a credible and robust plan should be developed. This guidance will be informed by the experience and independent evaluation of the trailblazers running in the 2021-22 financial year and our ongoing engagement with key stakeholders.