Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 12 June to Questions 188238, 188239 and 188240 on Apprentices: Finance, whether the (a) Scottish, (b) Welsh and (c) Northern Ireland government receives funding under the Barnett formula for the provision of apprenticeships.

The devolved administrations receive Barnett consequentials as a result of changes to UK government department DEL associated with spending in devolved areas. Rather than receiving funding for specific programmes or policy areas, the devolved administrations receive block grants from the UK Government. It is generally for the devolved administrations to decide how to allocate their block grant funding in devolved areas.

A full breakdown of how the block grants for the devolved administrations are calculated is published in Block Grant Transparency (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/block-grant-transparency-december-202) which will be updated on 20th July. The Statement of Funding Policy (Statement_of_Funding_Policy_update_Feb_2023.pdf (publishing.service.gov.uk) also lists the breakdown of comparability factors for each programme the devolved administrations receive funding from.