Published: October 2, 2025 at 3:44 pm
The government’s decision to withdraw funding has a direct impact to both employer and employees across all sectors of the economy including manufacturing, service industries, tech, financial services, construction and engineering.
The withdrawal of funding will have an impact – not just on the SME sector but also global corporates. – on senior leader roles across all UK companies.
It will mean that after the 1st January 2026 employers will now have to pay £14,000 per employee if they choose to put employees on the L7 senior leader programme.
The cost is likely to also be prohibitive to employees looking at the options of self-funding.
Overall investment into apprenticeships drives economic growth and the reduction of employees taking the L7 senior leader program will impact that growth.
The longer-term impact for UK companies will also be felt in senior leadership roles with not enough talented future leaders coming through the executive leadership pipeline.
In turn, this will have an impact on business growth and GDP.