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Select Committee
LEVRA
SFF0044 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training

Written Evidence Oct. 16 2024

Inquiry: Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Industry and Regulators Committee

Found: the workplace due to gaps in essential Human Skills such as communication, collaboration, and adaptability


Deposited Papers

Apr. 23 2024

Source Page: I. Universal Credit guidance April 2024 [update of previous guidance, deposited Oct 2023, DEP2023-0791]. 204 docs. II. Letter dated 15/04/2023 from Jo Churchill MP to to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. file list at Annex 1. 9p.
Document: 167Support_claimants-essential_employability_skills_needs_and_digital.pdf (PDF)

Found: dated 15/04/2023 from Jo Churchill MP to to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in


Deposited Papers
Department for Work and Pensions

Oct. 22 2024

Source Page: I. Universal Credit guidance 2024 [update of previous guidance deposited April 2024, DEP2024-0442]. 207 docs. II. Letter dated 16/10/2024 from Stephen Timms MP to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in the House libraries. Incl. file list at Annex D. 8p.
Document: 072_Funding_and_permitted_hours.pdf (PDF)

Found: dated 16/10/2024 from Stephen Timms MP to the Deposited Papers Clerk regarding documents for deposit in


Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Government Office for Science

Jul. 30 2024

Source Page: Microbiome manipulation
Document: Microbiome manipulation (webpage)

Found: manipulation via diet, prebiotic and probiotic, and other interventions, and what are the research gaps


Select Committee
The Heritage Alliance
SFF0074 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training

Written Evidence Oct. 16 2024

Inquiry: Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Industry and Regulators Committee

Found: search of better pay) they leave behind gaps in traditional skills and crafts which cannot easily


Written Question
Crafts: Training
Monday 28th October 2024

Asked by: Lord Freyberg (Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary)

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have for funding mechanisms to support training and development in the UK's heritage craft sector.

Answered by Baroness Twycross - Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

The Government is committed to supporting our heritage, culture and creative industries to thrive for years to come, celebrating our nation's wealth of talent and driving economic growth into communities across the country. We want the craft sector and British arts and culture as a whole to thrive.

As a new administration, we are currently exploring a wide range of policy options to support skills development. We are working closely with the Department for Education and engage with the heritage and skills sectors regularly in order to understand and address skills gaps. The National Lottery Heritage Fund supports traditional craft skills and training in a variety of ways, including funding projects that train people in traditional crafts and skills. They also run a Heritage Crafts programme which offers bursaries to help people train in heritage crafts or develop their skills.


Written Question
British Nationality: Children
Monday 16th September 2024

Asked by: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that children with rights to British citizenship can secure their citizenship rights where hostile British or settled fathers are unwilling to support their child's registration or passport applications.

Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office regularly engages with local authorities to support them in ensuring that children in local authority care, who are not already British citizens, can make an appropriate application for registration for citizenship. Children in local authority care are not required to pay an application fee when applying for registration as a British citizen.

In most cases, local authorities have access to the information needed to establish the citizenship rights and apply for registration for children in their care. Where there are evidence gaps, the Home Office will assist any applicant by checking information held in its records to confirm a claim.

Following the implementation of the British Nationality Act 1981, a range of explanatory material was prepared to support those affected by changes made by the Act. This material has been maintained and now forms part of the content of the relevant GOV.UK pages. The Home Office maintains published customer guidance for every British citizenship and nationality route, and also provides a British nationality status confirmation service.


Written Question
Social Security Benefits: Lone Parents
Wednesday 30th October 2024

Asked by: Nadia Whittome (Labour - Nottingham East)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of exempting single parents in part-time work with dependent children from the Administrative Earnings Threshold.

Answered by Alison McGovern - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

The Administrative Earnings Threshold determines the level of work coach support that Universal Credit customers receive. Customers on low incomes are able to access regular work coach advice and support to help them to increase their earnings, this can include advice on childcare or help to address skills gaps to aid career progression.

Work Coaches take each of our customers’ personal circumstances into account when agreeing reasonable actions to look for or progress in work, including any childcare responsibilities. Alongside this, we have committed to reviewing Universal Credit by listening to the full range of views on potential changes, so that our social security system is fit for purpose. And we will also be exploring how we can better support parents, as we develop our child poverty and labour market strategy objectives.


Departmental Publication (Policy paper)
Ministry of Justice

Oct. 08 2024

Source Page: East of England Probation Service Action Plan
Document: Hertfordshire (PDF)

Found: As a result, gaps remained in service provision for women, ethnic minorities and young adults.


Non-Departmental Publication (Policy and Engagement)
HM Prison and Probation Service

Oct. 08 2024

Source Page: East of England Probation Service Action Plan
Document: Hertfordshire (PDF)

Found: As a result, gaps remained in service provision for women, ethnic minorities and young adults.