Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of the proportion of expenditure spent by businesses on training.

There are no known published estimates of the proportion of business expenditure spent by business on training however data published in the UKCES Employer Skills Survey 2015 provides details of the average numbers of training days and training expenditure per employee in the years 2011, 2013 and 2015.