Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeship places, broken down by the NVQ level of each place, have been supported by funds from the apprenticeship levy.

​The table below provides the number of levy supported apprenticeship starts by detailed apprenticeship level:

Notes

1) Volumes are rounded to the nearest ten, or the nearest 100 for totals.

2) The data source is the Individualised Learner Record.

3) Levy-supported starts are those supported by levy-paying organisations using at least £1 of their own levy funds.

Please note that a level 2 apprenticeship is equivalent to NVQ level 2, a level 3 apprenticeship is equivalent to NVQ level 3 and so on. More information about equivalent qualification levels is available at https://www.gov.uk/what-different-qualification-levels-mean/list-of-qualification-levels.

Data for the 2017/18 academic year, and for the first quarter of the 2018/19 academic year (reported to date) were published alongside the ‘Further education and skills: November 2018’ and ‘Apprenticeship and traineeships release: January 2019’ statistics publications, available respectively at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/further-education-and-skills-november-2018.

​https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships-january-2019.