Oral Question·Department for Education
“If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 4 September 2018Answered: 10 September 2018
Asked by
Wera Hobhouse
Liberal Democrat — Bath
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Education
Answer from Hansard
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Pat McFadden)
Since the last set of Work and Pensions oral questions, we have announced £820 million of funding to offer training and work to young unemployed people through the youth guarantee and £725 million more in apprenticeship investment, with 50,000 more apprenticeship starts for young people. We have responded positively to the Sayce review on carer’s allowance and we have published our child poverty strategy, which will lift more than half a million children out of poverty by the end of this Parliament.