Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of how much of the money from the apprenticeship levy has been used by employers from each sector in each year since the introduction of that levy.

The apprenticeship levy is collected from employers by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. The Education and Skills Funding Agency does not require levy-paying employers to register an industry sector when registering an apprenticeship service account and is therefore unable to supply information on the sectoral distribution of spending on apprenticeships in the format requested.