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Construction Sector Specialist Apprentices

Monday 9 June 2025 · 2 questions

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Key points

  • Government investing significant amounts of money to train more construction workers.
  • Independent training providers are acknowledged as crucial in delivering specialist skills for the construction industry.
  • Government announced a 600 million investment to recruit an additional 60,000 construction workers by 2029.

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Questions & Answers

Q1 Alison Hume Lab Scarborough and Whitby
Education Housing Employment
Context

The construction skills village in Scarborough is an innovative real-world training environment for the specialist trades needed to build homes.

Question

Does the Minister acknowledge the importance of independent training providers in our plans to build 1.5 million new homes, and will he meet me to discuss how ITPs, which deliver the specialist skills that the construction industry is asking for, are included in our plans to train 60,000 new construction workers?

Answer from The Minister for Housing and Planning (Matthew Pennycook)

The Government are investing significant amounts of money to train more construction workers. We appreciate fully the importance of independent training providers in training the workforce needed to deliver more homes across England. I suggest that my hon. Friend and I find time to meet Baroness Smith from the Department for Education to discuss matters relating to ITPs, including the CSV in her constituency.

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Q2 Ellie Chowns Green North Herefordshire
Economy Energy Environment
Context

The hon. Member welcomed the Minister’s commitment to supporting skills training in the construction sector and highlighted the importance of sustainable skills.

Question

Does he agree that skills training needs to be particularly focused on the sustainable skills, and will he join me in congratulating the low-carbon technology training centre in my constituency, as well as the new university in Hereford—its first cohort of engineers graduated just last month? Does he welcome such initiatives, and will the Government put more funding into supporting the construction and engineering skills that our building sector will need?

Answer from The Minister for Housing and Planning (Matthew Pennycook)

I hope that the hon. Lady recognises that we are putting significant amounts of investment into construction skills. In the spring statement, the Government announced a £600 million investment that will recruit an additional 60,000 construction workers by 2029. I am more than happy to recognise the contributions made by initiatives of the sort that she mentions in her constituency.

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