Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how the £60 million allocated in the Industrial Strategy White Paper to support apprenticeship take up by young people and poorer families from disadvantaged areas will be used.

We want to make sure apprenticeships are accessible to under-represented groups so that more people can benefit from the increased wage and employment prospects that apprenticeships can offer.

The department distributes additional funding to support individuals from disadvantaged areas. We provide payments of £200, £300 or £600 to providers for training apprentices who live in the top 27 per cent of deprived areas. The payment amount is determined by the Index of Multiple Deprivation.

Further information about these payments is available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/562401/Apprenticeship_funding_from_May_2017.pdf.