Robert Halfon has resigned as minister for skills, apprenticeships and higher education and plans to stand down as an MP.
His decision comes ahead of this year’s general election.
Halfon, the MP for Harlow in Essex, became skills minister for the first time in 2016 but was sacked a year later by then-prime minister Theresa May.
He moved on to become chair of the education select committee, serving for five years, before returning to the skills brief, with the additional job of higher education, in the Department for Education in October 2022.
It is not clear at this stage who will replace Halfon as skills minister.
