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1281993

registered interest
date	29/01/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Training: Remote Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people have (a) started and (b) completed courses available in The Skills Toolkit online learning platform since it was launched on 28 April 2020.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	145872
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2021 answer text <p>As of 27 December 2020, there have been an estimated 138,000 course registrations and 25,000 course completions. These are experimental statistics and further information can be found in the official statistical release of 28 January 2021 in the following link: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships/2020-21" target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships/2020-21</a>.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 03/02/2021 10:13:16 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1281994

registered interest
date	29/01/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Training: Remote Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the (a) effectiveness of The Skills Toolkit and (b) potential effect of that toolkit on improving the (i) employability, (ii) digital skills and (iii) maths skills of learners.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	145873
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2021 answer text <p>The digital, numeracy and work readiness skills we have chosen to focus on are the skills that everyone needs to thrive in the 21st Century and ones that evidence suggests are increasingly in demand across almost all sectors and occupations. In deciding which specific courses to offer we have spoken to a range of employers.[1]</p><p>We have prioritised high-quality short courses that are free for learners to access online. The digital and numeracy skills we have chosen to focus on are the skills that everyone needs to thrive in the 21st Century and ones that evidence suggests are increasingly in demand across almost all sectors and occupations.[1]</p><p>[1] The Employer Skills Survey 2016 found a third of employers identifying digital skills lacking among applications. Research commissioned by DCMS in June 2019 identified 75% of job openings at each level request digital skills. This is backed up by a report conducted for the Industrial Strategy Council last year, which identified at the current rate there will be 5 million people with an acute basic digital skills need by 2030.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 03/02/2021 10:22:45 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1281995

registered interest
date	29/01/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Training: Remote Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money from the public purse has been allocated to The Skills Toolkit online learning platform in each year since its inception.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	145874
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2021 answer text <p>The cost allocated to The Skills Toolkit since it was announced in April 2020 is £952,000. This is all within this financial year.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 03/02/2021 10:26:46 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1281997

registered interest
date	29/01/2021
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Training: Remote Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department collects data on the protected characteristics of those who have completed courses via The Skills Toolkit online learning platform; and if he will place a copy of an aggregate, non-disclosive summary of this data in the House of Commons Library.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	145875
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2021 answer text <p>The department does not collect data on the protected characteristics of those who have completed courses via The Skills Toolkit online learning platform.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 03/02/2021 10:16:53 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1242530

registered interest
date	12/10/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Training: Remote Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money from the public purse has been spent on The Skills Toolkit online learning platform in each year since the beginning of that platform.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	102155
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2020 answer text <p>The Skills Toolkit was announced in April 2020 and the cost of developing the platform in this financial year is £798,700. This includes the launch and the two subsequent expansions of the platform. A further £325,700 has been spent on communications activities to promote the platform.</p><p><del class="ministerial">As of 4 October there have been a total of 118,011 starts of the courses on the platform and 19,564 course completions. As of 11 October, the platform had 1.2 million page views.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">As of 1 November 2020 there have been an estimated 119,000 course registrations. As of 1 November 2020 there have been 1,323,450 page views. These are experimental statistics and further information can be found in the official statistical release of 27 November 2020 in the following link: <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships." target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships.</a></ins></p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 19/10/2020 16:09:57 question first ministerially corrected 17/12/2020 18:41:06 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan previous answer version 54420 answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1239205

registered interest
date	30/09/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Training: Remote Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people have (a) started and (b) completed courses available in The Skills Toolkit online learning platform since it was launched on 28 April 2020.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	97710
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/10/2020 answer text <p>The platform was launched on 28 April and as of 30 September 2020 we had 97,615 course starts, 16,219 course completions and 1,100,260 page views. The department continues to review the data and outcomes from the platform in partnership with the providers – such as Google and Microsoft – who host the courses that feature on the platform.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan grouped question UIN 97711 question first answered 05/10/2020 15:11:57 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

1239206

registered interest
date	30/09/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Training: Remote Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the (a) effectiveness of The Skills Toolkit and (b) effect of that toolkit on improving learners' (i) employability, (ii) digital skills and (iii) maths skills.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	97711
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/10/2020 answer text <p>The platform was launched on 28 April and as of 30 September 2020 we had 97,615 course starts, 16,219 course completions and 1,100,260 page views. The department continues to review the data and outcomes from the platform in partnership with the providers – such as Google and Microsoft – who host the courses that feature on the platform.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan grouped question UIN 97710 question first answered 05/10/2020 15:11:58 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds