Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when funding bands for apprenticeships starting after April 2017 will be published.

Details of proposed funding bands for existing apprenticeship frameworks and standards were published on 12 August: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apprenticeships-proposals-for-funding-from-may-2017. The proposals were supported by a short employer survey which closed on 5 September.

We aim to publish final funding bands for apprenticeship frameworks and standards in October for those that start on or after 1 May 2017.