Question follow-through · 97674
Growth and Skills Levy: West Midlands
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to support SMEs in the West Midlands to access the Growth and Skills Levy.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 5 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2026 · 42 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to support SMEs in the West Midlands to access the Growth and Skills Levy.
9 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2026
Answer published
To support SMEs to access apprenticeships, the government will fully fund apprenticeship training for non-levy paying employers (essentially SMEs) for all eligible people aged under 25 from the next academic year. This change will make it easier for those...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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