Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to guarantee apprenticeship funding for non-levy paying employers in (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20, (c) 2020-21 and (d) 2021-22.

A new procurement for services to non-levy paying employers will be launched at the end of July 2017, this will set out how much funding we are making available for non-levy employers.

Decisions on future years’ funding will be made on the basis of ongoing monitoring of employer demand, performance and budgets.