Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education)

Organisations: Department for Education
Current role holder: Luke Hall MP

Responsibilities

The minister’s responsibilities include:

  • overall strategy for post-16 technical education
  • T Levels and transition programme
  • qualifications reviews (levels 3 and below)
  • higher technical education (levels 4 and 5)
  • apprenticeships and traineeships
  • further education workforce and funding
  • Institutes of Technology
  • local skills improvement plans and Local Skills Improvement Fund
  • adult education, including basic skills, the National Skills Fund and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund
  • careers education, information and guidance including the Careers and Enterprise Company
  • technical education in specialist schools
  • relationship with the Office for Students
  • higher education quality and reform
  • Lifelong Loan Entitlement
  • student experience and widening participation in higher education
  • funding for education and training, provision and outcomes for 16- to 19-year-olds
  • college governance and accountability
  • intervention and financial oversight of further education colleges
  • reducing the number of young people who are not in education, employment or training
  • international education strategy and the Turing Scheme

Current role holder

Luke Hall MP

Luke Hall was appointed Minister of State (Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education) at the Department for Education on 26 March 2024.

He was previously Minister of State (Minister for Regional Growth and Local Government) at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government from 8 September 2020 to 15 September 2021.

He was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government from 27 July 2019 to 8 September 2020.

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Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Robert Halfon MP

    2022 to 2024