Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills)

Organisations: Department for Education

Responsibilities

The minister’s responsibilities include:

  • apprenticeships including the apprenticeship levy, traineeships and institutes of technology
  • technical education and skills, including T-levels
  • careers education, information and guidance
  • post-16 funding (including support for young people and adult learners)
  • further education colleges, sixth-form colleges and local patterns of provision (including area reviews and city deals)
  • adult education, including the National Retraining Scheme and links to the review of post-18 education and funding
  • reducing the number of young people who are not in education, employment or training
  • the Department for Education non-executive board

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Anne Milton

    2017 to 2019

  2. The Rt Hon Robert Halfon

    2016 to 2017