2nd round of Mayor’s Skills for Londoners’ Capital Fund (3)

Questions to the Mayor of London – answered at on 17 March 2021.

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Photo of Susan Hall Susan Hall Conservative

Please confirm that digital skills & construction training have been delivered for Londoners since your injection of £57.6m of funding in 2019.

Photo of Sadiq Khan Sadiq Khan Mayor of London

My £57.6m Skills for Londoners Capital Fund Round 2 is made up of 17 projects of which only 5 have completed the physical build or equipment purchase. Two projects completed a year ago and 3 completed recently therefore outputs for these 5 projects continue to be realised. Projects are contractually required to report on outputs 6 months after completion and then 3 and 5 years after completion.

In the past year, additional and improved construction training has been delivered by two projects - Simian Risk and Harrow and Uxbridge College (HCUC) as a result of my Mayor’s Construction Academy capital funding. There are 4 other project that will deliver Construction training, but they are still in delivery. Digital skills are being delivered by Barking and Dagenham college, who received funding for equipment purchases to support the college as an Institute of Technology (IoT). There are 5 other projects that will deliver Digital skills, which are still in delivery.