Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government when non-Apprenticeship Levy paying employers will be able to register on the Digital Apprenticeship Service.

Details of the number of accounts registered on the apprenticeship service can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/further-education-and-skills-statistical-first-release-sfr#apprenticeship-service-statistics.

We plan to allow levy-paying employers to transfer funds to other employers from April 2018. Non-levy payers who intend to receive and spend funds transferred to them will be able to register on the apprenticeship service from April 2018. We plan that all non-levy payers will use the apprenticeship service from April 2019 to manage their apprenticeships. We will set out when they will be able to register for an account in due course.