Dear James Hart,

Thank you for your request for information relating to Apprenticeship Levy
budget which we received on 11/09/2024.

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Dear James Hart,

Thank you for your request for information relating to Apprenticeship Levy
budget which we received on 11/09/2024.

Please find Sheffield City Council’s response to your request set out
below:

Sheffield City Councils Apprenticeship Levy budget

The figures below show the actual amounts paid in to the Levy account and
the amount actually spent. It does not show the substantial amount of
money that is committed spend against apprenticeships in progress which
will come out of the account over the duration of the apprenticeship.

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│Annual Levy In, Sent, Expired and Transferred │
├────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┬─────────────────┤
│Year │Levy Activity        │Amount │
├────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│April 2017 - March 2018 │Paid In │£1,014,923.40 │
│ ├─────────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ │Spent │£82,075.84 │
├────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┴─────────────────┤
├────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┬─────────────────┤
│April 2018 - March 2019 │Paid In │£1,619,293.00 │
├────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ │Spent │£448,955.05 │
├────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┴─────────────────┤
├────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┬─────────────────┤
│April 2019 - March 2020 │Paid In │£1,409,180.86 │
├────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ │Spent │£721,333.44 │
├────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ │Expired -Back to HMRC │None │
├────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┴─────────────────┤
├────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┬─────────────────┤
│April 2020 - March 2021 │Paid In │£1,428,003.07 │
├────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ │Spent │£638,247.43 │
├────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ │Expired │£840,209.04 │
├────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┴─────────────────┤
├────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┬─────────────────┤
│April 2021 - March 2022 │Paid In │£1,473,147.31 │
├────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ │Spent │£930,586.21 │
├────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ │Expired │£489,284.25 │
├────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┴─────────────────┤
├────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┬─────────────────┤
│April 2022 - March 2023 │Paid In │£1,625,736.03 │
├────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ │Spent │£974,287.05 │
├────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ │Expired │£460,557.19 │
├────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ │Levy Transfer │£417.39 │
├────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┴─────────────────┤
├────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┬─────────────────┤
│April 2023 - March 2024 │Paid In │£1,740,153.50 │
├────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ │Spent │£1,072,820.07 │
├────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ │Expired │£352,013.46 │
├────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ │Levy Transfer │£64,964.93 │
└────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┴─────────────────┘

┌──────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│Year End Total = April 2017 – March 2024 │Comments │
├───────────────────────────┬──────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Paid in - up to March 24 │£10,310,437.17│ │
├───────────────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Spent - up to March 24 │£4,868,305.09 │ │
├───────────────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Expired - up to March 24 │£2,142,063.94 │Back to HMRC │
├───────────────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Levy Transfer - up to March│£65,382.32 │Transferred to other │
│24 │ │organisations │
├───────────────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Accumulated Levy - March 24│£3,262,185.00 │This is remaining available │
│ │ │Levy in our account │
└───────────────────────────┴──────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│Current Year- April 2024 - March 2025 │
├────────────────┬──────────────┬─────────────┬─────────────┬────────────┤
│Month │Paid In │Spent │Expired │Transfer │
├────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼────────────┤
│April 24 │£148,600.52 │£93,873.60 │£43,111.86 │£9,831.03 │
├────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼────────────┤
│May 24 │£149,766.18 │£81,895.39 │0 │£9,831.03 │
├────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼────────────┤
│June 24 │£148,658.19 │£86,224.87 │0 │£9,831.03 │
├────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼────────────┤
│July 24 │£149,847.28 │0 │£95,142.75 │0 │
├────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼────────────┤
│August 24 │£150,704.42 │£167,087.04 │£29,951.05 │£21,296.01 │
├────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼────────────┤
│September 24 │ │ │ │ │
├────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼────────────┤
│October 24 │ │ │ │ │
├────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼────────────┤
│November 24 │ │ │ │ │
├────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼────────────┤
│December 24 │ │ │ │ │
├────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼────────────┤
│January 25 │ │ │ │ │
├────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼────────────┤
│February 25 │ │ │ │ │
├────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼────────────┤
│March 25 │ │ │ │ │
├────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼────────────┤
│Running Total │£747,576.59 │£429,080.90 │£168,205.66 │£50,789.10 │
└────────────────┴──────────────┴─────────────┴─────────────┴────────────┘

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Kind Regards,

Sheffield City Council

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