Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish a report on the educational outcomes of new vocational qualifications.

From 1 September 2020, the government stopped approving newly regulated qualifications at level 3 and below for funding for students aged 16 and over. However, there are some exemptions to allow certain qualifications to continue to be approved. This is intended to stabilise the publicly funded qualifications offer while T Levels are rolled out and the qualifications review takes place. T Levels were launched in 2020 as new post-16 technical qualifications. We will publish data on achievement rates for T Levels when results from the first cohort of students are known this August. T Levels will also be included in performance tables from the 2024 exam year.