Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of apprenticeship courses were not completed in each academic year since 2016-17.

The department does not hold information on the number of apprentices starting during the 2010/11 academic year onwards that do not go on to subsequently complete their apprenticeship. Data is published on apprentices who were due to achieve (successfully complete) their apprenticeship in a particular academic year, regardless of the year they started.

The following links provide achievement rates for which we have data published going back to 2012/13:

National Achievement Rate Tables 2012/13 to 2018/19: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/sfa-national-success-rates-tables.

National Achievement Rate Tables 2019/20 to 2020/21: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships/2021-22#content-12.

National Achievement Rate Tables 2021/22: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships/2022-23#content-7.