Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government's response to the consultation on the Institute for Apprenticeships, operational guidance will be published before the Institute assumes its functions in April 2017.

I can confirm that the Institute for Apprenticeships will produce a guidance document that will include peer reviewing apprenticeship standards. I am also happy to report that following consultation, the Government will issue its final version of the Institute’s Strategic Guidance on 1 April 2017.

The Operational Plan consultation ran from 27 January to 27 February 2017. The Institute will publish the final Operational Plan on 18 April 2017.