Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 67448

Work Experience: Secondary Education

Tabled: 14 July 2025

Answered: 17 July 2025

Named Day

Question

Neil O'Brien

Conservative — Harborough, Oadby and Wigston

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of secondary schools provide two weeks of work experience.

Answer

Catherine McKinnell

The department has asked the Careers and Enterprise Company (CEC) to collect national baseline data on the delivery of two weeks’ worth of work experience for every secondary pupil, across schools in England. CEC plan to publish this data by the end of 20...

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