The final size and structure of the Institute for Apprenticeships will be determined in due course. No decisions have yet been made about its structure or staffing.

The figures for the number of people employed in the Skills Funding Agency Bristol office in each year since 2010 are:

Set out below is the amount of funding paid to Acas and is full-time equivalent staff for each year since 2009-10.

The internal review of employment status has now concluded.

Ministers are carefully considering whether further steps are required to improve clarity and transparency for employers and individuals alike.

The table below outlines the total number of staff employed by full-time equivalence in the Skills Funding Agency:

Staffing numbers have reduced as part of the Civil Service reform programme. Alongside this, the Skills Funding Agency has prioritised its resources to focus on 3 million apprenticeship starts. The latest Statistical First Release shows an upward trajectory of apprenticeship starts.

The Institute for Apprenticeships (IfA) will have a very small research role, focused around its tight set of core functions. It will not continue the UKCES function of carrying out research into the wider labour market.

BIS has consulted the Devolved Administrations and other users of labour market information on future research priorities. These discussions have identified the significance of the Employer Skills Survey, the Employer Perspectives Survey and the LMI (Labour Market Information) for All Portal. We are considering how these can best be delivered in future and will announce future arrangements as soon as final decisions are made.

Broadcasting Support Services (BSS) was contracted in 2009 to run the Pay and Work Rights Helpline (PWRH) until March 2015.

In April 2015 Acas took over responsibility for providing a one stop shop for workers and employers seeking advice on a wider range of employment matters.

The budget was: 2009/10 - £968k, with 9 members of staff; and in 2014/15 it was £750k, with 7 members of staff. The cost of the service was then absorbed by Acas within their existing helpline functions when they took over responsibility for handling calls previously dealt with by the PWRH.

In 2009-2010 the spend for the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate (EAS) was £1,072,608 and the Inspectorate employed 30 staff, including administrative support and call handling staff.

In 2010-2011 the spend for EAS was £932,000 with 29 staff employed (as of 1 May 2010).

In 2010 the Pay and Work Rights helpline was created. This took over complaint handling and provision of advice and guidance for agencies and agency workers, thus reducing the need for EAS support staff who had previously performed this function. Consequently, in 2011-2012 EAS spend reduced to £637,631 with 23 staff employed.

Following a restructure in the Department and streamlining of processes, in 2012-2013 EAS spend was £551,461 with 16 staff employed.

In 2013-2014 EAS spend was £532,023 with 12 staff employed (as of the 1^st April 2013).

In November 2013, as part of the Government’s ongoing commitment to review regularly the enforcement of the national minimum wage, a more targeted enforcement strategy for the recruitment sector was announced, focusing on protecting the most vulnerable, low-paid workers. Resources from EAS moved to HM Revenue and Customs’ National Minimum Wage (NMW) team to form a new HMRC team which mainly focussed on enforcing non-payment of national minimum wage in the recruitment sector. This ensured that the most vulnerable workers were protected and created a level playing field for the vast majority of agencies who play by the rules. Two staff remained in BIS to enforce the recruitment sector regulations and prioritised complaints using a risk-based approach.

As part of the Government programme on illegal working and tackling exploitation, a decision was taken in February 2015 to increase EAS resourcing. In June 2015 the number of full time equivalent staff increased to nine. Actual spend will not be available until the end of the financial year.

The National Apprenticeships Service is housed within the Skills Funding Agency. The tables below outline the total number of staff employed by full-time equivalence and by region in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2012-13 and (iii) 2014-15; and how many staff will be employed by full-time equivalence in (A) 2015-16, (B) 2016-17 and (C) 2017-18.

*The Skills Funding Agency is unable to forecast future headcount.

The Departments and their agencies will undertake this work with no additional staffing. Additional costs will be minimal. The Departments and agencies have re-prioritised from within existing resources to accommodate the additional work, including providing access to additional advice and support from further education and six form colleges Advisers.

The Government has not made a recent estimate of the number of employees who receive payment of service charges, tips, gratuities and cover charges through their employer.

The Government launched a call for evidence in this area which closed on 10^th November. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills will analyse responses and make public the key findings in due course.

The Department for Education (DfE) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), along with respective funding agencies, have re-prioritised staffing resources to support the review of post-16 education and training.

There are seven reviews in the first wave of area reviews which have either launched since September or will launch in the next few weeks. Each review will take 3-4 months to complete and will be supported by resource from the DfE, BIS, Education Funding Agency and Skills Funding Agency.

The area reviews of post 16 education and training are being undertaken in waves and can be triggered by either the local area requesting a review or the FE Commissioner or Sixth Form College Commissioner identifying the need for a review because one or more colleges in an area are at risk of failing. The first wave is underway now and details of the following reviews have been announced and can be found on the gov.uk website :

Birmingham and Solihull

Greater Manchester

Sheffield City Region

Tees Valley

Sussex Coast

Solent

West Yorkshire

The second wave will start in January 2016 and we aim to announce details in November 2015. We are currently looking at the geographies and phasing for other areas and will aim to issue further information on this before the end of the year but in doing this we recognise that the position should remain fluid to take account of the views of local partners and also cases of failure.

We expect all reviews to be completed by March 2017.

The National Minimum Wage campaign launched on 29 July 2015. Information on the number of employers, workers covered and total arrears identified through the campaign will be made available when details for each voluntary disclosure have been finalised.

There are currently nine Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate permanent warranted officers, who are supported by one administrative officer.

There are no current plans to change staffing levels but they will be considered in the context of the Prime Minister’s announcement on 21^st May 2015 that the Government will create a new labour market enforcement agency.

The internal review of employment status has now concluded and Ministers are considering the findings.

The Department plans to continue to provide funding for further education for adults. Across all our grant, loan and capital support for adult further education, we are making available over £3bn in 2015-16.

For apprenticeships, Government and employers will continue to jointly invest in the training, reflecting the economic benefits that apprenticeships bring. For older learners studying at advanced level (age 24 and upwards studying at level 3) our policy is to provide HE-style loans to fund tuition fees to colleges. We have made £498m of provision available in 2015-16. For adult further education, our policy is to pay grant to providers based on the numbers of learners they teach and characteristics of those learners. There are also specialist funds to support joint projects with employers to grow skills in strategic areas of the economy; to support prisoner education; and for community learning. We also make capital funding available to colleges. In 2015-16 £410m of capital funding is available, of which £330m is distributed according to the requirements of Local Enterprise Partnerships. Finally, our policy is to provide funding to support the learner to access the system and get the most from it.

Apprenticeships are our priority for skills and colleges have been encouraged to expand their apprenticeship offer. As government funding has reduced, colleges have responded well by looking at generating other income streams and creating sustainable business models for the future. This entrepreneurial approach will help ensure sustainable future business models with less reliance on government funding.

The financial health of further education colleges is under constant review by the Skills Funding Agency based on self-assessment information from colleges and the publication of college accounts. Colleges with inadequate financial health are subject to intervention led by the FE Commissioner.

Our funding mechanism is designed to allow providers the freedoms and flexibilities to decide how best to use their allocation to respond to local learner and employer demand. As autonomous organisations it is up to colleges to manage their own budgets including staffing numbers and what provision to offer.

Colleges are becoming increasingly responsive to employer and learner need and employers are now taking the lead in apprenticeship design so that apprenticeship training, be that in the workplace or at college, equips apprentices with the skills that employers need. We believe that our funding for adult skills through apprenticeship and further education provision can have a positive impact on learners, employers and the UK economy.

The total number of adults aged 19 plus participating in Government funded Further Education and skills learning in each of the last 5 years are as follows:

More detailed information on participation is available from the following website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/learner-participation-outcomes-and-level-of-highest-qualification-held

Details of funding allocations made available to further education providers in the 2014/15 financial year are available on the Skills Funding Agency website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sfa-funding-allocations-to-training-providers-2014-to-2015

Allocations for 2015/16 will be published in due course.

At the end of February 2015, 4 local authority providers of adult further education and training were judged as outstanding, 122 were judged as good, 11 were judged as requires improvement and four were judged as inadequate at their most recent Ofsted inspection.

Information on the numbers of people employed by local authorities across specific services is not collected centrally.

Information is not centrally collected for either the number of apprentices by company size or the number of apprentices who go on to work in the public or private sectors at the end of their apprenticeship.

A survey carried out during 2013/14, found that approximately 16% of apprentices were working in the public sector[1], and 75% were working in the private sector.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/387595/bis-14-1207-Apprenticeships-Evaluation-Employers-December-2014.pdf
Public/private sector is based upon self-declaration by the employer.

Information on the total number of people in the population with a Hairdressing or Barbering qualification is not held centrally. The Department only holds data on government-funded learners.

Table 1 shows the number of non-apprenticeship learners who achieved a Hairdressing or Barbering qualification in the 2013/14 academic year, and at what level.

Table 2 shows the number of learners who achieved an apprenticeship in Hairdressing or Barbering in the 2013/14 academic year, and at what level.

Table 1. Adult (19+) FE & Skills (excluding Apprenticeships) Achievements by Level; Hairdressing and Barbering (2013/14 Full Year)

Notes

1) This table includes Workplace Learning, Community Learning and Education and Training provision (including the Offender Learning and Skills Service) taken at General Further Education Colleges (including Tertiary), Sixth Form Colleges, Special Colleges, Specialist Colleges and External Institutions.

Table 2. All Age Learner Achievements in the Hairdressing and Barbering Apprenticeship Frameworks, by Level (2013/14 Full Year)

Notes

1) Figures represent the number of learners who have achieved an apprenticeship framework, as opposed to the number of framework achievements, in the 2013/14 academic year. Total achievements will therefore differ from those published for frameworks. Framework achievements are published here https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/378242/apprenticeships-achievements-by-sase-framework.xls

The Department for Education publishes data on the number of staff in schools with the role of careers adviser.

The figures for England, available from 2010, are:

Source: School Workforce Census. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.