Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money the Government has invested in apprenticeships so far; and how much money the Government plans to have invested in apprenticeship by 2020.
The table below sets out participation spending for the apprenticeship programme for the period 2012-2018, the only years for which comparable figures are available. This is the sum spent by providers of training on delivery, and does not include other costs of the programme:
Financial Year | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 |
Total spend £(millions) | 1,461 | 1,459 | 1,551 | 1,540 | 1,632 | 1,559 |
The total budget for the apprenticeship programme in 2019-20 is £2.45 billion.