Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much has been (a) raised in apprenticeship levy in Birkenhead and (b) successfully reclaimed by firms to train apprentices.

Information on the apprenticeship levy collected by HM Treasury and successfully reclaimed by firms is not available in the format requested.

The majority of levy-paying employers operate across multiple geographical areas which means we cannot reasonably attribute the levy collected to individual locations within the UK. In England, these employers are free to spend their apprenticeship funding wherever they wish, in locations that best meet the skills needs of the business.

We publish regular statistics on apprenticeships here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/apprenticeship-and-levy-statistics-february-2018. These reflect the way that the levy is collected and spent.