Employment: Training
(asked on 18th January 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people undertook workplace training opportunities in (a) Level 2 and (b) Level 3 qualifications in (i) 2017-18, (ii) 2018-19, (iii) 2019-20 and (iv) 2020-21.
Apprenticeship participation at level 2 and 3 in the 2017/18 to 2020/21 academic years is shown in the table below. Additionally, the number of traineeship starts in each academic year is shown (although traineeship programmes do not have a defined level).
| 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 |
Level 2 apprenticeship participation | 374,400 | 275,800 | 225,300 | 185,400 |
Level 3 apprenticeship participation | 372,400 | 356,200 | 338,700 | 326,400 |
Total apprenticeship participation | 814,800 | 742,400 | 719,000 | 713,000 |
Traineeship starts | 17,700 | 14,900 | 12,100 | 17,400 |
Note:
- Volumes are rounded to the nearest 100
- Participation is the count of learners that participated at any point during the year. Learners undertaking more than one course will appear only once in the total participation, but will be counted individually at each level, in cases when a learner participates at more than one level in an academic year.
- Source: Individualised Learner Record
Further information on apprenticeship starts and traineeship starts can be found in the Apprenticeships and traineeships statistics publication: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships.