Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of apprenticeship starters were eligible for free school meals in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire and (c) England in each quarter of each academic year since 2014.

Information on the proportion of apprenticeship starters who were eligible for free school meals is not held in the format requested.

We publish data on apprenticeship starts with various breakdowns by level, local authority and parliamentary constituency in the apprenticeships geography and sector subject area tool of the apprenticeships data library. This can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships.