Ministers are not discussing controls on apprenticeship levy spending amid re-emerging concerns that the pot could run dry, Robert Halfon has said.
The skills and apprenticeships minister batted away warning signs of budget overspend and insisted his department “can’t judge employer behaviour” and does not know the direction the budget will take each year.
He is instead focussed on achieving “as many starts as possible”.
Halfon made the comments in an interview, his first with FE Week since returning as minister, during a country-wide tour celebrating National Apprenticeship Week.
