Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many training providers on the Apprenticeships Register have been removed from the register (a) after receiving an 'inadequate' Ofsted grade and (b) for not having any active apprenticeships in the last 6 months, in each of the last 3 years.

On 1 August 2023, the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers (RoATP) and the Register of End-point Assessment Organisations (EPAOs) were combined to become the Apprenticeship Provider and Assessment Register (APAR).

The table below shows the number of apprenticeship training providers that were added to the APAR in each of the last three calendar years:

The table below shows the number of apprenticeship training providers that have been removed from the APAR after receiving an Inadequate Ofsted grade in each of the last three calendar years:

The table below shows the number of apprenticeship training providers that have been removed from the APAR for not having any active apprenticeships in the last six months in each of the last three calendar years: