Department for Education written question – answered at on 1 August 2024.
Alex Mayer
Labour, Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to allow local leaders to use Skills Bootcamp funding to support training for bus drivers.
Janet Daby
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education
Skills Bootcamps are a great way for learners and local areas to develop the skills they need and the department provides grant funding to 30 mayoral combined authorities and local areas to deliver Skills Bootcamps training that meets local skills’ priorities. In the 2023/24 financial year, the total value of grant funding contracts awarded was approximately £114 million.
The department continues to keep the sectors eligible for Skills Bootcamps funding under review.
Yes4 people think so
No4 people think not
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