Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Higher National Certificate and Higher National Diploma courses have been terminated as a result of new rules arising out of the Apprentice Levy.

The information requested is not held centrally.

Further information on qualifications within apprenticeship standards is available on the Institute for Apprenticeships website at: https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/developing-new-apprenticeships/developing-and-writing-an-apprenticeship-occupational-standard/. The latest information we have on the number of Higher National Certificates and Higher National Diplomas is from the 2016/17 academic year, and as such covers a period prior to the levy coming into effect.