Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many applications the Government has received for the HGV Skills Bootcamp.
We are investing up to £34 million in Skills Bootcamps in heavy goods vehicle (HGV) driving, to create up to 11,000 HGV driver training places for people that are new, returning to, or looking to upskill as an HGV driver.
Following the launch in December of Skills Bootcamps in HGV driving, the suppliers contracted to deliver training have seen high demand for places. We understand that training providers overall have seen at least twice as many people expressing an interest in completing a Skills Bootcamp in HGV as the number of training places they have been contracted to deliver.