Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much money was raised by organisations eligible to pay the Construction Industry Training Board levy in the (a) 2021-22 and (b) 2022-23 academic year; and how much of that money was not spent in each of those years.

The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) operates on a financial year running from April to March. In the 2021/22 financial year the CITB raised a total income of £148.5 million against expenditure of £175 million resulting in a deficit of £26.5 million (this was met from existing CITB reserves). For the 2022/23 financial year, the CITB raised £210.9 million against expenditure of £196.1 million resulting in a surplus of £14.8 million. The attached table contains a breakdown and the 2021/22 accounts, which are published here: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=2&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&p_p_resource_id=%2Faccounts-resource&p_p_cacheability=cacheLevelPage&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_objectiveId=A12786347&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_priv_r_p_mvcRenderCommandName=%2Faccounts-and-annual-returns&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_priv_r_p_organisationNumber=264289 (2022/23 accounts pending).

To note:

1. The expenditure relates to grants and funding claimed, not when the training was undertaken. Employers had 26 weeks to claim the funding.
2. The expenditure relates to both levy and non-levy and is shown in total as not possible to split out in the timeframe given.
3. Operational decisions around how income is spent are taken by the CITB.