Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much the Government plans to spend on apprenticeships in the 2017-18 academic year.

We are committed to growing the quality and number of apprenticeships so that even more people have the opportunity to get on in life. That’s why in the 2017-18 academic year, we are making available over £2 billion for apprenticeships.

We are doubling the annual level of spending on apprenticeships between 2010-11 and 2019-20 in cash terms to £2.5billion.