Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of employers in Penistone and Stocksbridge constituency that will not be required to pay the apprenticeship levy.
The Apprenticeship Levy was introduced in April 2017. Therefore it is not yet possible to produce the number of employers that are paying the levy by region or parliamentary constituency. In addition, it may not be possible to publish these numbers for some geographical areas if there are only a few employers in an area, as the rules about statistical disclosure may apply if there are very small numbers.
The most recent UK wide forecasts of the number of employers paying the levy are found in the Department for Education release:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/545145/Apprenticeships_-expected_levy_and_total_spend_-_Aug_2016.pdf.
Across the UK, this estimates that around 20,000 employers will pay the levy.