Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of young people aged between 16 and 24 who started an apprenticeship remained in their placement after (a) three months, (b) six months and (c) 12 months in the most recent 12-month period for which data is available.

The information requested is not held centrally.

However, we publish figures on ‘achievements’, and for 2016/17 (latest full year), achievements numbers for apprenticeships is published in table 7.2 in the tables at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/further-education-and-skills-november-2017.

We also publish ‘achievements rates’, and this will be refreshed on 22 March with the latest data at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/sfa-national-success-rates-tables.