THE 10 PER CENT fee that small businesses must pay when they take on apprentices will be halved,the Chancellor has announced.Philip Hammond toLd the Commons in his budget speech that SMEs must now only contribute five per cent to the training,as part of a”￡695 million package to support apprenticeships".The Treasury originaLLy told FE Week the change would come into effect from April 2019,but has since backtracked on this and said no fixed date has been decided on yet.It comes after Skills Minister Anne Milton told the Association of Employment and Learning Providers(AELP)conference in June that issues with the fee have been noted,but there would not be a change to the rules anytime soon.
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