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Vocational Education: Meat

Commons · Question 71153 · Tabled 29 Aug 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 12 Sep 2025

Question

Asked by Alicia Kearns

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of including Level 2 qualifications for butchery and poultry dressing on the Free Courses for Jobs scheme.

Answer

Answered by Josh MacAlister, 12 Sep 2025

The core Adult Skills Fund covers a very wide breadth of qualifications including those related to butchery and poultry dressing (for example the Level 2 Certificate for Proficiency in Meat and Poultry Industry Skills). The department sets funding rates w...