Apprentices: Taxation

(asked on 26th April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeship starts have been funded by unspent employer levy funds in (a) 2018 and (b) to the end of March 2019.


Answered by
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Anne Milton
This question was answered on 7th May 2019

In the first half of 2018/19 academic year there have been 214,200 apprenticeship starts reported to date. Of these, 105,700 (49%) starts have been directly supported by funds from levy payer’s apprenticeship service accounts. There have also been 108,500 (51%) starts which have not been supported directly by levy funds, and the majority of these starts will be with non levy-paying employers.

We publish data on apprenticeship starts on a monthly basis at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/further-education-and-skills-statistical-first-release-sfr.

In the 2019-20 financial year, the annual funding allocated to the Department for Education for apprenticeships in England is over £2.5 billion. This funding is distinct from levy receipts and is used to fund new apprenticeship starts for both levy and non-levy paying employers, and to cover the ongoing costs of apprentices that are already in training. It is therefore not possible to provide data on how many apprenticeship starts have been funded by unspent employer levy funds as all apprenticeship starts are funded from the Department for Education’s budget. At present, there are no plans to spend expired levy funds on programmes other than apprenticeships.

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