Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the effect of the apprenticeship levy on apprenticeship starts at levels 2 and 3 since the release of the November 2017 apprenticeship starts statistics.
Data for ‘Apprenticeships and Traineeships: January 2018’, https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships-january-2018 show there have been 52,000 intermediate (Level 2) and 50,800 advanced (Level 3) apprenticeship starts so far in the 2017/18 academic year, which account for the majority of apprenticeship opportunities overall.