Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many 16 to 18 year old apprentices whose families had previously been in receipt of welfare payments there were in each of the last three years.
We do not hold information on whether apprentices come from families who had previously been in receipt of welfare payments.
Latest information on the number of apprenticeships starts collected from the Single Individualised Learner Record by age group is published here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/further-education-and-skills-november-2017
The department publishes information on outcome based success measures for those completing apprenticeships and further education training and also on further education learners claiming benefits:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/further-education-for-benefit-claimants-2015-to-2016