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<p>The Employer Skills Survey 2017, published in August 2018, states that UK employer
expenditure on training and development in 2017 was £44.2bn, which represented approximately
2.2% of GDP.</p><p> </p><p>The primary government support for in-work training is
the Apprenticeship Programme, which is funded by a 0.5% levy on all UK businesses
with a wage bill over £3m each year. In 2017/18, the levy raised around £2.6bn, which
was made available to the Department for Education to fund apprenticeships and skills
training in England, and the devolved administrations, who received their share of
the levy in the normal way to spend on their priorities.</p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury
does not collect or hold direct international comparisons for these statistics.</p><p>
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