To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department (a) paid in apprenticeship levy fees and (b) spent from its apprenticeship levy funds between September 2021 and August 2023.

The Department has paid £68 million in apprenticeship levy fees from September 2021 to March 2023, this includes the 10% Government top up. Expenditure between April 2023 to August 2023 is subject to auditing and will be released in the Ministry of Defence financial year 2023-24 Annual Report and Accounts.

As the cost of delivering apprenticeship training as part of professional skills development is linked to the overall training budgets it is not possible to extract the specific apprenticeship spend.