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Sue Gray Report
Monday 31st January 2022

(3 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Alex Burghart Portrait Alex Burghart
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I should be delighted to look into that issue for the hon. Gentleman.

Simon Baynes Portrait Simon Baynes (Clwyd South) (Con)
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7. What steps his Department is taking to strengthen the value of technical qualifications.

Karen Buck Portrait Ms Karen Buck (Westminster North) (Lab)
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14. What estimate he has made of the number of students studying for (a) BTECs and (b) T-levels in the 2021-22 academic year.

Alex Burghart Portrait The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education (Alex Burghart)
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We are reforming technical education to support progression and meet employer needs. Our initial figures show that nearly 5,500 new students started T-levels in September last year, more than four times the number who started in 2020. We do not routinely publish take-up data on individual qualifications such as Pearson BTECs, but we will publish in June the number of students who were studying for applied general qualifications at the end of 2021.

Simon Baynes Portrait Simon Baynes
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Will the Minister join me in congratulating my constituent Adele Hughes, who is working as an apprentice with Raytheon Technologies, on being awarded a bronze medal at the recent WorldSkills UK Competition, and does he agree that Adele’s remarkable achievement demonstrates the value of technical qualifications and apprenticeships?

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