Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2015 to Question 19529, if he will publish the internal modelling his Department undertook prior to finalising the details of the apprenticeship levy.

The results of the modelling can be found in HM Treasury’s Spending Review and Autumn Statement which was published in November 2015: page 140 shows HMT’s assessment of the income which will be raised by the levy in each year of the parliament. The Spending Review and Autumn Statement can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/479749/52229_Blue_Book_PU1865_Web_Accessible.pdf .