Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much his Department (a) paid in apprenticeship levy fees and (b) spent from its apprenticeship levy funds between September 2021 and August 2023.

The most recent Civil Service Apprenticeship Strategy (published in April 2022) stated that part of monitoring and measuring the success would include value for money from the apprenticeship levy. The aim is that the Civil Service “will use at least 65% of its annual levy contribution in one year, further increasing each year, in order to achieve a return on investment.”

The spend against levy contribution across the period requested is above the target.