Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the budget of the employer ownership fund has been in each year since 2011; what proportion of that budget has been spent in each such year; and how many apprenticeship starts have been created in each such year.

Final Approved answer to 21955

Since 2011 the budget and spend for the employer ownership fund has been:

12-13 13-14 14-15

Budget £2.2m £16.7m £27.7m

Spend £1.5m £11.4m £22.3m (forecast)

Since 2011 Employer Ownership Pilot Apprenticeship starts have been:

12-13 13-14

1200 1,500 (**provisional)

** Full figures for 2013/14 academic year not published until November 2014 – this figure covers the first 9 months of the year academic (August – April).