Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of employers that benefit from the apprenticeship levy; and how many apprentices have remained at their place of employment after their apprenticeship has concluded.

Data on numbers of apprenticeship starts by age, region, local authority and constituency is available through the Further Education Data library tables: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships. We do not hold data on the number of starts by household income.

Data on the number of levy paying employers that are registered on the apprenticeship service, and can therefore access and benefit from levy funds, is available (as reported to the end of August 2017) here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/apprenticeship-service-registrations-and-commitments-august-2017. These statistics are published on a monthly basis. We do not hold this data for non-levy paying employers as their apprenticeship training is funded via contracts with training providers.

Recent data show that over 90 per cent of apprentices currently go into work or further training at the end of their apprenticeship, the majority of these with the same employer.