Education

Robert Halfon Excerpts

Thursday 20th July 2023 Ministerial Corrections

The following is an extract from the Fifth Delegated Legislation Committee on the draft Industrial Training Levy (Engineering Construction Industry Training Board) Order 2023 on 12 July 2023.

[Robert Halfon]

He talked about the budget, but he will know that 99.6% of the apprenticeship budget, which includes the levy that is set by the Treasury, was used over the past year.

[Official Report, Fifth Delegated Legislation Committee, 12 July 2023, Vol. 736, c. 7.]

Letter of correction from the Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education, the right hon. Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon).

An error has been identified in my contribution. The correct information should have been:

[Robert Halfon]

He talked about the budget, but he will know that 99.6% of the apprenticeship budget, which is set by the Treasury, was spent in the 2021-22 financial year.

Skills and Apprenticeships: Funding

The following are extracts from Education questions on 17 July 2023.

[Mr Toby Perkins (Chesterfield) (Lab)]

New research from the House of Commons Library has shown that the amount of the apprenticeship levy paid by employers that has been allocated to the apprenticeship budget has fallen from 89% in 2017 to just 77% in the most recent year. The truthful answer to the question from the hon. Member for Stroud (Siobhan Baillie) is that the Secretary of State is doing nothing to reform the apprenticeship levy, as she believes it is working perfectly. Can the Minister confirm that any employer that, like the hon. Member for Stroud, wants greater flexibility in the levy should vote Labour in the next general election?