Oral QuestionDepartment for Education

What steps her Department is taking to help ensure that tertiary and technical education providers work with businesses to meet local skills needs.

Tabled: 5 December 2023Answered: 11 December 2023

Asked by

Greg Smith

ConservativeMid Buckinghamshire

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Education

Answer from Hansard

The Prime Minister

The most visible sign of the failure of the last Government was the NHS. We are going to expand the role of community pharmacies and accelerate the roll-out of independent prescribers. We need much more care to be delivered in local communities so that problems can be spotted earlier, and we will train thousands more GPs. We were elected to change the country, and that means getting the NHS back on its feet. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor will have much more to say about that in the Budget—about fixing the foundations of our economy so that we can put money in people’s pockets, fix our public services and rebuild Britain.