Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 8 January 2024 to Question 7553 on Apprentices: Taxation, what the total spend from apprenticeship levy accounts was in each year since 2017; and how much and what what proportion of that spend came through the (a) apprenticeship levy and (b) top-up.

The table below shows the total spend from levy-paying employers’ apprenticeship service accounts in each financial year since 2017/2018.

These figures do not cover the total spend on apprenticeships in levy-paying employers, such as additional payments for English and maths support and for taking on apprentices aged 16 to 18.

It is not possible to provide a breakdown of this spend by employers’ levy contributions and the 10% government top-up to those contributions.