Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many apprenticeship applications have been (a) made and (b) accepted in the last 12 months; and how many such applications were from people who have served a prison sentence.

Information on the number of apprenticeship applications made through the find an apprenticeship website in the last 12 months is published online (first link) at the FE Data Library (second link). This does not include applications made to vacancies which are advertised on an employer's own website.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/466540/AVNumberOfApplicationsbyAgeGenderEthnicitySSALevelOct15.xls

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeship-vacancies

We do not centrally collect information on the number of applications that are made and accepted from people who have served a prison sentence.