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Apprentices: Taxation

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had with her counterpart in Northern Ireland on ensuring that businesses in Northern Ireland that pay into the Apprenticeship Levy receive direct funding from the levy.

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Answering body: Treasury
Tabled: 25 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 27 Nov 2024
Answer: 3 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

25 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions she has had with her counterpart in Northern Ireland on ensuring that businesses in Northern Ireland that pay into the Apprenticeship Levy receive direct funding from the levy.
27 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Dec 2024
Answer published
HMT ministers engage regularly with the Northern Ireland Finance Minister through the Finance Inter-Ministerial Committee. While the Apprenticeship Levy is UK wide, apprenticeship policy and spending is devolved. This means that the devolved governments r...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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