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<p>The apprenticeships programme is demand led, and employers will recruit apprentices
and spend their funds on the apprenticeship training that they judge best meets their
skills needs. The programme makes sure that funds move to where there is a need; to
retain levy funds for specific sectors could restrict the use of funding.</p><p> </p><p>Using
our apprenticeship budget to fund wider skills training would have a significant impact
on our ability to meet our target of three million apprenticeship starts by 2020 as
less of the funding would be focussed on apprenticeship training. We want to retain
and meet this target to give more people the opportunity to get the skills they need
to get on in life.</p>
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