Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to carry out a review of the Apprenticeship Levy.

We continually monitor performance and keep apprenticeships policy under review, making changes and improvements in consultation with employers and training providers. For example, we recently introduced the ability for levy paying employers to transfer up to 10% of their apprenticeship funds to other employers. The Institute for Apprenticeships has introduced a new ‘Faster and Better’ initiative to speed up the approval of new apprenticeship standards. We have also introduced a new £1000 bursary to support apprentices who are care leavers and are working to introduce a new feedback tool to allow employers to provide transparent feedback about the quality of training they receive from individual providers.