Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make it his policy to regularly report on apprentices' (a) wages, (b) number of hours worked, (c) age, (d) level of education and (e) duration of training.

Considerable information on apprenticeships by age and level is already regularly published (in January, March, June, October and November each year) as part of a Statistical First Release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/learner-participation-outcomes-and-level-of-highest-qualification-held.

Supplementary tables on the actual duration of apprenticeships (first link) and the planned duration of apprenticeships (second link) are also published online: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/284791/June13_Apprenticeship_ALOS.xls.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/381735/apprenticeships-starts-planned-length-of-stay.xls.

Information on apprenticeship pay and hours in England, Wales and Scotland is not included in the Statistical First Release but is published in research findings from the Apprenticeship Pay Survey. The most recent survey covers apprentices working in 2014: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apprenticeship-pay-survey-2014

The Apprenticeship Pay Survey was previously carried out in 2012, 2011, 2007 and 2005.