Apprentices: Taxation
(asked on 5th February 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much and what proportion of Apprenticeship Levy funding was used to fund qualifications at each education level, in each year since 2018.
The apprenticeship levy underpins our reforms to raise apprenticeship quality and supports employers to make long-term, sustainable investments in the skills that they need. Income from the levy is used to fund apprenticeships in all employers (both those who pay the levy and those who do not pay the levy).
The table below provides a breakdown for the financial year 2018-19 and shows spending on new apprenticeship starts since May 2017, following the introduction of the apprenticeship levy, in both levy-paying and non-levy paying employers, as well as spending on apprenticeships started before the levy. This is broken down for each level of apprenticeship.
2018-19 financial year spend by apprenticeships level in millions of pounds | ||||
Level | Levy | Non- Levy | Pre-Reform | Total |
2 | £247 | £236 | £100 | £584 |
3 | £388 | £253 | £178 | £819 |
4 | £77 | £17 | £10 | £103 |
5 | £65 | £11 | £11 | £87 |
6 | £53 | £5 | £6 | £64 |
7 | £34 | £7 | - | £40 |
Total | £864 | £528 | £305 | £1,697 |
*Participation spend only as per the 2018/2019 Financial Statements
*Rounded to the nearest million below the table and below where it says *participation spend only as per the 2018/19 Financial Statements.