Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will hold discussions with individual sector skills councils on the proportion of the three million new apprenticeships that need to be at level 3 and level 4.

Apprenticeships are jobs, so employers themselves decide what occupations and levels they employ apprentices in.

Employer-led Trailblazers are designing apprenticeship standards at a range of levels to meet the skill needs of their industries.

We will continue to encourage the growth of apprenticeships at all levels to meet our commitment to 3 million new starts in England by 2020, including Level 3, Level 4 and Degree Apprenticeships.