Question follow-through · 96661
Small Businesses: Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps are being taken to encourage more smaller businesses to take on apprentices.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 3 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2026 · 44 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps are being taken to encourage more smaller businesses to take on apprentices.
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2026
Answer published
Apprenticeships are a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only. To encourage smaller businesses to take on apprentices, the government will fully fund apprenticeship training for non-levy paying employers (essentially sm...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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