Levy makes apprenticeships ‘a bureaucratic nightmare’ says Cable
Colin Cottell
25 January 2018
Sir Vince Cable (above, centre), leader of the Liberal Democrats, has slammed the government’s Apprenticeship Levy, claiming it has resulted in apprenticeships becoming “a bureaucratic nightmare” and that “it has wrecked apprenticeships”.
Speaking at a Midtown Big Ideas Exchange event on ‘The Future of Talent’ in central London last night, Cable went on to say that while “the concept and the theory are great”, the implementation of the levy system, where employers with an annual pay bill of more than £3m pay 0.5% of it...
