Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what the distribution of course duration is among courses completed through the AI Skills Hub; and how many completions were of courses of (a) under 20 minutes, (b) 20 minutes to 2 hours and (c) over 2 hours.

The AI Skills Hub provides access to a wide range of learning opportunities of from shorter self-paced courses to longer-term programmes. As part of this wider offer, 18 foundational AI courses aligned to the Skills England framework are spotlighted through the AI Skills Boost programme, with courses ranging from around 20 minutes to three weeks in duration.

The AI Skills Boost programme is delivered through a partnership model involving 32 industry and public sector organisations. The AI Skills Hub directs users to training hosted on partner platforms and partners report course completion data to the Department in aggregate rather than at individual course level. As a result, the Department cannot provide a breakdown on the distribution of course completions by duration. The Department is currently working with industry partners to review what data is collected to monitor the benefits of the programme.