Asked by: Hannah Bardell (Scottish National Party - Livingston)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the zero-rating of VAT on digital publications.
Answered by Nick Gibb
My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, meets regularly with Cabinet colleagues to discuss the Department for Education's agenda.
Asked by: Hannah Bardell (Scottish National Party - Livingston)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding will be available through the digital apprenticeship service in (a) 2017-18, (b) 2018-19 and (c) 2019-20.
Answered by Robert Halfon
The apprenticeship levy will raise £2.8 billion a year across the UK by 2020
Through the levy, we will be investing £2.5 billion a year in England on apprenticeships by 2020
The table below provides the latest provisional figures for apprenticeships budgets (excluding non-participation budgets, Apprenticeship Grant for Employers (AGE) and Employer Ownership Pilot (EOP).
| 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 |
Department for Education, £m | 2,010 | 2,231 | 2,450 |
Funds will be available to levy payers through the digital apprenticeship service depending on their levy payment and their workforce who are resident in England.
Funding for the devolved administrations has also been announced: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-government-agrees-apprenticeship-levy-funding-deal-with-devolved-administrations
Asked by: Hannah Bardell (Scottish National Party - Livingston)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much is planned to be spent on apprenticeships in (a) 2017-18, (b) 2018-19 and (c) 2019-20.
Answered by Robert Halfon
The apprenticeship levy will raise £2.8 billion a year across the UK by 2020
Through the levy, we will be investing £2.5 billion a year in England on apprenticeships by 2020
The table below provides the latest provisional figures for apprenticeships budgets (excluding non-participation budgets, Apprenticeship Grant for Employers (AGE) and Employer Ownership Pilot (EOP).
| 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 |
Department for Education: £m | 2,010 | 2,231 | 2,450 |
Funds will be available to levy payers through the digital apprenticeship service depending on their levy payment and their workforce who are resident in England.
Funding for the devolved administrations has also been announced: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-government-agrees-apprenticeship-levy-funding-deal-with-devolved-administrations