Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the equity of the procurement process for funding new apprenticeship training schemes in colleges and schools.

The procurement to deliver apprenticeship training to non-levy paying employers was managed in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

All providers on the main route of the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers were eligible to bid. The full awarding methodology was set out in procurement documents in the Evaluation Guidance.