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<p>Between 6 May 2017, when the apprenticeship service went live, and the end of April
2018, levy paying employers drew down £207 million from their apprenticeship service
accounts for new starts.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education has a
ring-fenced apprenticeship budget which has been set regardless of how much levy receipts
are each year. This budget was set at £2.01 billion for the 2017-18 financial year.
It is used to fund new apprenticeship starts in levy and non levy-paying employers
and to cover the ongoing training costs of apprentices that are already in training.</p><p>
</p><p>As the apprenticeship programme is demand led, and employers can choose which
apprenticeships they offer, at what level and when, actual spend to April 2019 is
still unknown.</p><p> </p><p>We will publish details on aggregate apprenticeship spending
in our departmental end-of-year accounts as part of our normal financial reporting
cycle.</p>
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