Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the final funding band review for the Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship standard of 15 August, what calculations or data were used to reach the conclusion that any new standard for a Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship would be allocated to an initial band of £8,000.

This is a matter for the Institute for Apprenticeships. I have asked its Chief Executive, Sir Gerry Berragan, to write to my noble Friend and a copy of his reply will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.