Apprentices: Finance
(asked on 27th November 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) apprenticeship courses started and (b) apprenticeship levy spent were for (i) Level 6 and (ii) Level 7 apprenticeships in each year since 2016.
The proportions of apprenticeships starts at level 6 and level 7, as a percentage of total apprenticeship starts at all levels, are provided in the table below for each academic year between 2015/16 and 2023/24.
Academic Year | Proportion of total starts at Level 6 (%) | Proportion of total starts at Level 7 (%) |
2015/16 | 0.10% | <0.05% |
2016/17 | 0.30% | <0.05% |
2017/18 | 1.70% | 1.20% |
2018/19 | 2.80% | 3.00% |
2019/20 | 4.70% | 4.80% |
2020/21 | 6.10% | 6.10% |
2021/22 | 6.70% | 5.60% |
2022/23 | 7.40% | 6.50% |
2023/24 | 7.70% | 7.00% |
Further information on numbers of apprenticeship starts by detailed level can be found at: https://content.explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/api/releases/bfd06312-7732-41bc-97e7-94a6d85d2400/files/1ff3ab06-a956-4baa-921c-7166db33c723.
The apprenticeship levy was introduced in 2017, from which the department is allocated an apprenticeships budget for England. This budget is used to fund training and assessment for new apprenticeship starts in apprenticeship levy and non-levy paying employers, and to cover the ongoing costs of apprentices already in training and any additional payments made to employers and providers.
The table below shows total spend on level 6 and level 7 apprenticeships, in both levy-paying and non-levy paying employers in England, as a proportion of the total spend on the apprenticeship programme since the 2017/18 financial year.
Financial year | Level 6 spend (£million) | Level 7 spend (£million) | Total apprenticeships spend (£million) | Proportion of total spend at Level 6 (%) | Proportion of total spend at Level 7 (%) |
2017/18 | 50 | 12 | 1,586 | 3% | 1% |
2018/19 | 71 | 50 | 1,738 | 4% | 3% |
2019/20 | 114 | 103 | 1,919 | 6% | 5% |
2020/21 | 172 | 165 | 1,863 | 9% | 9% |
2021/22 | 296 | 236 | 2,455 | 12% | 10% |
2022/23 | 349 | 234 | 2,458 | 14% | 10% |
2023/24 | 387 | 238 | 2,509 | 15% | 9% |
Spend is rounded to the nearest million and proportions to the nearest whole number.