Apprentices

(asked on 18th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeships starts were there in (a) the most recent period for which data is available and (b) the same time period in 2019, by (i) region and (ii) local authority area.


Answered by
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Gillian Keegan
Secretary of State for Education
This question was answered on 23rd November 2020

The number of learners starting apprenticeships by geographical area, including by region and local authority area, is published on GOV.UK. The table attached provides provisional apprenticeship starts for England based on learner home postcode in the first three quarters of the 2018/19 and 2019/20 academic years, reported to date.

Care should be taken in comparing in-year data with equivalent periods in previous years as this data is provisional and subject to revisions by further education providers; as well as interpreting overall change given the effect of COVID-19.

Further breakdowns by region and local authority for each academic year are published here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/899753/201920-July_totals-since-may-2010-and-2015.xlsx.

The 2019/20 in-year figures here refer to ‘reported to date’ to reflect that they are provisional and subject to change. More accurate comparisons can be made once final returns for the 2019/20 academic year are available. Figures for the full, final 2019/20 academic year are due to be published in our next ‘Apprenticeships and traineeships’ statistics publication, on 26 November.

Data reported for the first three quarters this time last year for 2018/19 (August to April) including by region and local authority was published here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/814998/Apprenticeship-starts-ach-geography-tool_201718_Q3-201819_July2019.xlsx.

The above files can be accessed in the FE data library on GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships.

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