Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Vince Cable Excerpts
Monday 24th June 2019

(5 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Anne Milton Portrait Anne Milton
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We are determined to make the apprenticeship system work for small and medium-sized enterprises, and smaller businesses get 95% of their training costs paid. We will move smaller businesses on to the apprenticeship system: we want to do that well and smoothly to make sure that we make it work for them.

Vince Cable Portrait Sir Vince Cable (Twickenham) (LD)
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Can the Minister explain why very good companies with generous apprenticeships and training schemes are making a net contribution to the Treasury through the levy scheme rather than being rewarded through tax relief or in other ways?

Anne Milton Portrait Anne Milton
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Those decisions were made some time ago. They have enabled us to make sure that by 2020 spending on apprenticeships will have more than doubled since 2010.