Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many organisations and businesses are signed up to deliver T-level work placements from 2020.

The Government is taking action now to make sure high quality work placements are available when the first T levels go live in September 2020. From April next year, £74million in additional funding will be available to help providers to start building effective relationships with employers to deliver placements from September 2018. We will also be asking employers what additional support they will need to deliver work placements through the public consultation on T levels being launched later this year. Earlier this month we launched a work placement pilot scheme to test different models and approaches to delivering T level placements. We have worked with over 150 employers and providers to design these pilots and we will be working with a range of employers, providers and approximately 2500 students to deliver placements through this pilot this academic year.