Submission 127
AELP Submission to the Chancellor – Budget 2025
AELP Submission
AELP Response
AELP is the country’s biggest membership body for training providers delivering Government funded and regulated training programmes, such as apprenticeships, bootcamps and Adult Skills Funded Programmes.
Known for our independent training provider membership base, we also have 20% of all FE Colleges, a similar number of universities and over 100 employers in our membership. The AELP Board represents all parts of our membership, and we have over 20 forums and special interest groups through which policy is discussed and evaluated. We are well placed, therefore, to speak on behalf of the whole skills system, including employers.
The government has made economic growth the central mission of this Parliament.
Compared to other investments available to the Government to boost growth – investment in big infrastructure, e.g. Heathrow, Sizewell C, planning reform, transport upgrades, trade deals, etc – investment in work-based skills programmes delivers impact that scores favourably on reliability, speed and impact. Apprenticeships in particular are widely acknowledged to be high impact productivity programmes.
AELP Submission to the Chancellor – Budget 2025
Submission 127
