Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask His Majesty's Government, following changes in the machinery of government and responsibility for skills being placed with the Department of Work and Pensions, which department will now be responsible for the administration of, and policy development for, Skills England.

• As announced by the Prime Minister on 16 September, responsibility for apprenticeships, adult further education, skills, training and careers, as well as Skills England, has now transferred from the Department for Education to the Department for Work and Pensions.
• Responsibility for higher education, along with further education, skills, training and careers for individuals aged 19 and under, will remain with the Department for Education.