Question follow-through · 45205

Apprentices: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of employers’ National Insurance contributions on the availability of apprenticeships in 2025-26.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 8 Apr 2025
Target answer date: 22 Apr 2025
Answer: 1 May 2025 · 23 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

8 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of employers’ National Insurance contributions on the availability of apprenticeships in 2025-26.
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 May 2025
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member for Mid Bedfordshire to the answer of 26 March 2025 to Question 39407.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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