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<p>The Apprenticeship Grant for Employers provides £1,500 to help smaller employers
recruit a new apprentice aged 16 to 24. We have made £170m additional funding available
over 2014-16 financial years to fund over 100,000 additional incentive payments. Provisional
figures show that between Feb 2012 and July 2014 there were 95,200 apprenticeship
starts for which a payment was made through the AGE Grant. A further 8,200 were in
the pipeline (started but not yet paid).</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Apprenticeship
reforms are putting employers in the lead of designing apprenticeships, making it
easier and more attractive for them to offer more in the future. Funding reforms will
also provide a financial incentive to support smaller businesses taking on an apprentice.</p><p>
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