The Department for Education handed £96 million of apprenticeship funding back to the Treasury last year, new figures show.
Of the department’s £2.554 billion total apprenticeship budget in the 2022-23 financial year, £2.458 billon, or 96 per cent, was spent.
It marks an increase in the underspend the department recorded in 2021-22, when just £11 million of its apprenticeship funding went unused.
