Question follow-through · 7073
Apprentices: Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has modelled the potential impact of recent changes in employment costs on trends in the level of apprenticeship recruitment by small and medium-sized enterprises.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 4 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 12 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has modelled the potential impact of recent changes in employment costs on trends in the level of apprenticeship recruitment by small and medium-sized enterprises.
9 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jun 2026
Answer published
The government has committed a further £1 billion investment in young people, taking total additional investment into the Youth Guarantee and the Growth and Skills Levy to £2.5 billion over the next three years. This investment will support almost one mil...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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