Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeship starts there were in South Yorkshire in the last five years; and what the level was of each those apprenticeships.
This information is in the public domain. The tables below provide the number of apprenticeship starts in each of the last five academic years for Barnsley and South Yorkshire broken down by level as published in the ‘FE data library: further education and skills’ geography data tool: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-further-education-and-skills.
Table 1: Apprenticeship starts for Barnsley by academic year
Level | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 |
Intermediate | 1,880 | 1,940 | 1,900 | 1,990 | 1,580 |
Advanced | 1,280 | 850 | 1,050 | 1,120 | 1,140 |
Higher | 50 | 50 | 110 | 140 | 220 |
Barnsley Total | 3,200 | 2,850 | 3,060 | 3,250 | 2,930 |
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Yorkshire and the Humber Total | 59,900 | 53,120 | 62,550 | 63,520 | 61,150 |
Table 2: Apprenticeship starts for South Yorkshire (Barnsley, Doncaster, Sheffield and Rotherham) by academic year
Level | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 |
Intermediate | 8,790 | 8,860 | 9,590 | 9,760 | 8,290 |
Advanced | 6,050 | 4,640 | 5,460 | 5,610 | 5,660 |
Higher | 200 | 210 | 510 | 760 | 1,180 |
South Yorkshire Total | 15,040 | 13,730 | 15,560 | 16,130 | 15,140 |
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England Total | 510,200 | 440,400 | 499,900 | 509,400 | 494,900 |
1) Volumes are rounded to the nearest 10. Volumes for South Yorkshire are aggregated here using published rounded figures for individual local authorities – Barnsley, Doncaster, Sheffield and Rotherham.
2) Data obtained from the Individualised Learner Record.
3) Local authority and region are based upon the home postcode of the learner.
For additional geographical and level breakdowns please see the apprenticeships geography tools in the ‘FE data library’:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships.