Found: Declarations of Interests- Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training Declarations of interest

Found: SFF0016 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training WMG, University of Warwick Written Evidence

Found: SFF0009 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training Purple beard Ltd Written Evidence

Found: SFF0018 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training University Vocational Awards Council (UVAC

Found: SFF0017 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training Lightcast Written Evidence

Found: SFF0020 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training Tank Storage Association Written Evidence

Found: SFF0007 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training National Skills Academy for Rail Written

Found: SFF0019 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training Founders & Coders CIC Written Evidence

Found: SFF0008 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training Anglian Water Written Evidence

Found: SFF0021 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training UKHospitality Written Evidence

Found: SFF0022 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training Ginger Nut Media (T/A Ginger Nut Training

Found: SFF0015 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training University College of Estate Management

Found: SFF0014 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training Ennis & Co Group Written Evidence

Found: SFF0012 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training Local Government Association Written Evidence

Found: SFF0011 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training SSE Written Evidence

Found: SFF0010 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training University of Exeter Written Evidence

Found: SFF0023 - Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training Financial Services Skills Commission Written

Found: Declarations of Interests- Skills for the future: apprenticeships and training Declarations of interest

Found: workflows we use such as routine tissue culture, media prep etc., would be well suited to T-levels, apprenticeships

Found: within a broad portfolio of activities, our Institute is working on supporting technical skills and apprenticeships

Found: workflows we use such as routine tissue culture, media prep etc., would be well suited to T-level, apprenticeships

Found: rules for STEM sectors and also to continually review options to increase funding and support for apprenticeships

Found: the pipeline of individuals studying and working in priority sectors, including those taking up apprenticeships

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeships started in Gateshead Central and Whickham constituency in each of the last five years.

Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

Apprenticeship starts are published at parliamentary constituency level in the Apprenticeships official statistics, which is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/apprenticeships. Data for Gateshead Central and Whickham by academic year from 2018/19 to 2022/23 can be found in the dataset called ‘Geography - New Parliamentary Constituency Breakdowns’.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeships have started in Knowsley constituency in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

Apprenticeship starts are published at parliamentary constituency level in the Apprenticeships official statistics, which is available here; https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/apprenticeships. Data for Knowsley for the academic years 2013/14 to 2022/23 can be found in the dataset called ‘Geography LA, PCON and Region - Starts since May 2010 and 2015’.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the economic impact of growth and skills levy proposals to allow levy-paying companies to retain 50% of their contributions.

Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

The government is transforming the Apprenticeship Levy into a new Growth and Skills Levy. The new levy will build on the apprenticeships programme to create opportunities for learners of all ages, give employers of different sizes greater flexibility to address critical skill shortages in their workforces and drive economic growth.

The department is working across government to develop the design of the Growth and Skills Levy and will set out more detail in due course. This will include further information on the role of Skills England in ensuring that levy-funded training delivers value for money and meets the needs of levy paying and non-levy paying businesses.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department spent on communications in the last year for which data is available.

Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

The department uses marketing to support the delivery of strategic aims and government priorities, including to recruit teachers and early years professionals, reform the skills landscape, and drive take up of products and services like apprenticeships, T Levels and childcare entitlements.

The department’s total spend on advertising and communications was £48 million in 2023/24. More information on the department’s accounts for 2023/24, the last year for which data is available, can be found in the link below: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66a78085ce1fd0da7b592e80/DfE_consolidated_annual_report_and_accounts_2023_to_2024_-_web-optimised_version.pdf.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has had discussions with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on funding the retention of 50% of the contributions of apprenticeship levy-paying companies.

Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

The government is transforming the Apprenticeship Levy into a new Growth and Skills Levy. The new levy will build on the apprenticeships programme to create opportunities for learners of all ages, give employers of different sizes greater flexibility to address critical skill shortages in their workforces and drive economic growth.

The department is working across government to develop the design of the Growth and Skills Levy and will set out more detail in due course. This will include further information on the role of Skills England in ensuring that levy-funded training delivers value for money and meets the needs of levy paying and non-levy paying businesses.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 18 October 2023 to Question 201370 on Apprentices: Finance, how she plans to fund the policy of allowing levy-paying companies to retain 50% of their contributions under the Growth and Skills levy.

Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

The government is transforming the Apprenticeship Levy into a new Growth and Skills Levy. The new levy will build on the apprenticeships programme to create opportunities for learners of all ages, give employers of different sizes greater flexibility to address critical skill shortages in their workforces and drive economic growth.

The department is working across government to develop the design of the Growth and Skills Levy and will set out more detail in due course. This will include further information on the role of Skills England in ensuring that levy-funded training delivers value for money and meets the needs of levy paying and non-levy paying businesses.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the financial impact of the proposed growth and skills levy on (a) non-levy paying companies, (b) the apprenticeship budget and (c) overall apprenticeship spending.

Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

The government is transforming the Apprenticeship Levy into a new Growth and Skills Levy. The new levy will build on the apprenticeships programme to create opportunities for learners of all ages, give employers of different sizes greater flexibility to address critical skill shortages in their workforces and drive economic growth.

The department is working across government to develop the design of the Growth and Skills Levy and will set out more detail in due course. This will include further information on the role of Skills England in ensuring that levy-funded training delivers value for money and meets the needs of levy paying and non-levy paying businesses.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the impact of the growth and skills levy on non-levy paying companies.

Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

The government is transforming the Apprenticeship Levy into a new Growth and Skills Levy. The new levy will build on the apprenticeships programme to create opportunities for learners of all ages, give employers of different sizes greater flexibility to address critical skill shortages in their workforces and drive economic growth.

The department is working across government to develop the design of the Growth and Skills Levy and will set out more detail in due course. This will include further information on the role of Skills England in ensuring that levy-funded training delivers value for money and meets the needs of levy paying and non-levy paying businesses.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the potential merits of implementing proposals for a growth and skills levy.

Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

The government is transforming the Apprenticeship Levy into a new Growth and Skills Levy. The new levy will build on the apprenticeships programme to create opportunities for learners of all ages, give employers of different sizes greater flexibility to address critical skill shortages in their workforces and drive economic growth.

The department is working across government to develop the design of the Growth and Skills Levy and will set out more detail in due course. This will include further information on the role of Skills England in ensuring that levy-funded training delivers value for money and meets the needs of levy paying and non-levy paying businesses.

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will raise apprenticeship levy funding.

Answered by Darren Jones - Chief Secretary to the Treasury

The Apprenticeship Levy (AL) is currently paid by large employers, charged at a rate of 0.5% on an employer’s annual pay bill of over £3 million. The annual apprenticeship budget is then set by HMT, which funds training and assessment costs for apprenticeships.

This government is committed to transform the Apprenticeship Levy into a Growth and Skills Levy, which will allow employers to invest in a wider range of training.

Question to the Scotland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, what plans he has to work with the Scottish Government to (a) support and (b) increase engineering apprenticeships in Scotland.

Answered by Ian Murray - Secretary of State for Scotland

Scotland has always produced world-class engineers, and this Government is committed to growing the economy and supporting the sector all across the UK.

Scotland is at the forefront of the Government’s mission to make Britain a clean energy superpower by 2030, which in itself will create a range of new opportunities for engineering apprentices in Scotland. Great British Energy, our new publicly-owned clean energy company, will be headquartered in Scotland; in addition to delivering energy security and lower prices for consumers, it will create thousands of jobs and build supply chains across the UK as new technologies are deployed. In addition to GB Energy, further opportunities for engineering apprentices will arise from the National Wealth Fund, which will unlock further investment opportunities for the local ports, heavy industry and manufacturing companies that have a crucial role to play in creating quality jobs and in our transition to net zero.

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to encourage more people to train as nurses.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The National Health Service has faced chronic workforce shortages for years, but the Government will build a health service fit for the future. We will make sure the NHS has the staff it needs to be there for all of us when we need it.

Training the necessary staff will take time, but we are committed to training more nurses, midwives, and allied health professionals, and will work closely with a range of partners across the health and education sectors to do so, while highlighting the benefits of nursing as a career. We will also ensure there are a range of routes into a nursing career, such as apprenticeships and undergraduate courses.

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department will take to incentivise young people who live in supported accommodation to work more hours.

Answered by Stephen Timms - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)

We acknowledge the challenge presented by the interaction between Universal Credit and Housing Benefit for those residing in supported housing. However, people in supported housing and in receipt of Housing Benefit are always better off in work than not working at all.

It is the department’s priority to ensure that those who can work are supported to enter the labour market and to sustain employment. DWP is working in conjunction with West Midlands Combined Authority on a Proof of Concept which will test financial support for eligible 18–24-year-olds living in commissioned supported housing who move into work or increase their working hours and cease receiving Universal Credit. We are hopeful that this will provide new insight to inform future policy.

The Government’s Back to Work Plan is critical to growing the economy. This includes implementing a new national jobs and career service to help get more people into work alongside a Youth Guarantee. This will mean more quality opportunities for training, apprenticeships and help to find work for all young people aged 18-21 years old, preventing them from becoming excluded from the world of work at a young age.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps her Department has made to ensure that the construction sector is represented in the courses supported by the Skills and Growth Levy.

Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

The department is working across government and in partnership with industry, including through the Construction Skills Delivery Group (CSDG), to ensure that our skills offer meets the needs of the sector.

This includes transforming the Apprenticeship Levy into a new Growth and Skills Levy. The new levy will build on the apprenticeships programme to create opportunities for learners of all ages, and give employers of different sizes greater flexibility to address critical skill shortages in their workforces and drive economic growth.

The department will set out more detail in due course, including further information on the role of Skills England in ensuring that levy-funded training delivers value for money and meets the needs of businesses.

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask His Majesty's Government what regulations govern training for prisoners while still in prison for job placements on release.

Answered by Lord Timpson - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)

The prison education curriculum enables prisoners to gain the skills they need to get employment on release. In addition to English, maths and vocational training we offer bespoke, local training via the Dynamic Purchasing System. We are developing other training through our Future Skills Programme in a variety of sectors, such as construction and hospitality with employers guaranteeing interviews to prisoners on completion of the course. Prisoners may also undertake other work placements during their sentence which prepares them for work on release. Some are within the prison setting e.g. prison kitchens, but prisoners in open prisons may also go out to work in a variety of sectors under Release on Temporary Licence conditions. We also work with the Department for Education who fund a ‘skills bootcamp’ to deliver training in skills needed to work in the rail industry alongside continuing to develop the opportunities for serving prisoners to undertake apprenticeships.

Prison Education delivered by HMPPS is underpinned by the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009, the Prison Rules 1999 and the Prison Education and Libraries Framework. The delivery of apprenticeships to prisoners is governed by the Apprenticeships (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2017. All aspects of education, skills and work are inspected by Ofsted alongside HMIP.

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Found: NHSBT is currently supporting a total of 135 apprenticeships , spanning from level 2 to level 7, across

Found: NHSBT is currently supporting a total of 135 apprenticeships , spanning from level 2 to level 7, across

Found: . • Internal apprenticeships: Access to both further and higher education opportunities and qualifications

Found: In 2023 - 24, we set a target of 4% of our headcount to be undertaking apprenticeships across England

Found: qualifications you need for your future role in forestry Level 1 & 2 qualifications (GCSEs and apprenticeships

Found: Ofsted Big Listen research report: findings from professionals | Controlled | Page 19 of 63 apprenticeships

Found: of different types of FE and skills provision (for example, education programmes for young people, apprenticeships

Found: of different types of FE and skills provision (for example, education programmes for young people, apprenticeships

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Found: waste reduction, recycling, energy efficiency, ef ficient use o f resources and transport options, apprenticeships

Found: measures and achievements such as Targeted Recruitment and Training, skills development, employment, apprenticeships

Found: a rounded perspective on fair access to higher education, it is necessary to also focus on Graduate Apprenticeships

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Found: It is the reason why our Memb ers allocated £6m of Covid Recovery funding to create 200 two -year apprenticeships

Found: Wishart has recently asked questions of the Scottish Government regarding support for apprenticeships

Found: If spent on education and apprenticeships it would be an investment in human capital in any case.

Found: • Thousands of children and young people have been supported into foundation, modern, and graduate apprenticeships

Found: currently consulting on proposals to bring funding for learner support into one place, and funding for apprenticeships

Found: development for diversification into civilian markets, and job creation including graduate roles and apprenticeships

Found: development for diversification into civilian markets, and job creation including graduate roles and apprenticeships

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Found: ▪ 5,315 people (31%) were supported by a subsidy to do so, ▪ 1,957 people (11%) started modern apprenticeships

Found: responsibility to nurture talent and help individuals fulfil their potential; • a strong commitment to Modern Apprenticeships

Found: Many Boards spoke about the routes into nursing, with many welcoming Health and Care apprenticeships

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