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<p>Levy-paying employers in England do not use digital vouchers. Employers that pay
the apprenticeship levy use funds in their apprenticeship service accounts to pay
for training and assessment and to transfer to other employers</p><p><br> In October
2019, the apprenticeships and levy statistics publication reported that there were
780 transferred commitments that have materialised into apprenticeship starts as recorded
on the Individualised Learner Record (ILR) as at 31 August 2019. Of these, 20 (2.7%)
were starts in the Construction, Planning and Built Environment sector subject area.</p><p>Please
note:<br> 1) The figures above are rounded to the nearest 10 and percentage to 1 decimal
place.</p><p>2) The percentage is derived from unrounded figures.</p><p>3) The figures
above show only those transfers where a start is taking place on a standard in the
Construction, Planning and Built Environment sector subject area. The construction
industry sector could include starts on standards in other sector subject areas (i.e.
Business, Administration and Law). <br> <br> We are unable to identify whether a transfer
between apprenticeship service accounts was from a levy-paying company to a non-levy
paying company as we do not centrally hold data on the size of employer and their
industry sector. This means we cannot identify if these transfers of levy funds were
to the apprenticeship service accounts of small to medium-sized employers. The Department
for Education does, however, periodically perform an analysis linking ILR data to
the Inter-Departmental Business Register data (held by the Office for National Statistics)
to identify the size and industry sector of employers, with the most recent analysis
covering the 2016/17 academic year. Thes statistics are available at the following
link:<br> <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/apprenticeships-in-england-by-industry-characteristics"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/apprenticeships-in-england-by-industry-characteristics</a>.</p>
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