Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 24 October 2018 to Question 181594 on Training, what proportion of (a) the £24 million allocated to the CITB Construction Skills Fund and (b) the £30 million allocated to develop innovative ways to use education technology and artificial intelligence in education will be spent in the 2018-19 financial year.

The CITB Construction Skills Funding is currently being agreed with the successful Construction Training Hubs providers across the country. We expect up to £9.2 million to be granted in 2018/19. A ministerial announcement about the successful projects will be made later this year.

The government has also committed up to £30 million to develop innovative ways to use education technology and articial intelligence in education to deliver improved learning outcomes. As updated in my previous response on 24 October 2018, this funding will begin in the 2019-20 financial year and is profiled evenly between financials years 2019-20 and 2020-21.