Written question asked by Gordon Marsden (Labour) on Thursday, 18 July 2019, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 23 July 2019 (named day). It was answered by Anne Milton (Conservative) on Tuesday, 23 July 2019 on behalf of the Department for Education.

National Retraining Scheme

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the roll-out of the Get Help to Retrain scheme (a) in the Liverpool City Region and (b) to all eligible adults in England by 2020.

Answer: In October 2018, the government announced a £100 million initial commitment to continue to test, learn and develop the National Retraining Scheme. This has allowed us to start delivering the first parts of the scheme in the Liverpool City Region. Get Help to Retrain will be expanded to more people and more areas throughout the testing phase before being made available to all eligible adults in England in 2020. In addition to this, we are continuing to develop new products in parallel to the testing of Get Help to Retrain, which will collectively make up the complete service.

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