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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will publish a detailed timeline for the introduction of the apprenticeship levy to assist small and medium-sized enterprises to develop future apprentice and training plans.

In April 2016 we published a guide for employers on how they will pay the levy, access the digital system and pay for apprenticeships in future.

We have asked employers to tell us what information they need next and have already committed to publishing provisional funding rates and further funding information in June.