Apprenticeships: Levy

Lord Watts Excerpts

Monday 25th June 2018 Lords Chamber

[Lord Watts (Lab)]

My Lords, can the Minister say how long it will take for the British system to come up to the same level as Germany’s?

[Viscount Younger of Leckie]

We are in a very favourable position in comparison to Germany because, for example, it has 30% off-the-job training and we are going for 20%. As the noble Lord will know, this is part of a two-year programme, so we have deliberately given employers who pay the levy two years in which to bed in these new changes and get used to the process. We believe that that is happening.