Question follow-through · 101669
Small Businesses: Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with small businesses on the apprenticeship system.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 18 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 9 Feb 2026 · 53 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions he has had with small businesses on the apprenticeship system.
5 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Feb 2026
Answer published
This Government is transforming the apprenticeships levy into a new growth and skills levy, which will deliver greater flexibility to employers and learners in England and support the industrial strategy. We recognise the importance of ensuring that small...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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