Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government when the national retraining scheme will be rolled out across England.

The government has initiated rolling out the first part of the National Retraining Scheme, Get Help to Retrain. This service helps users to understand their current skills, explore alternative occupations that they could do and find and sign up to the training they need to access opportunities for a broad range of good jobs.

Since the start of the roll out of Get Help to Retrain in the Liverpool City Region in July, more features have been added to the service, and it has been rolled out to users in a further five areas. The service will be further tested and improved in 2020.

Alongside Get Help to Retrain, we are developing other products that will collectively make up the full National Retraining Scheme service.