Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeships were created in the manufacturing sector in 2018.
The most recent statistics on apprenticeships starts by industry sector cover the academic years 2012/13 to 2016/17 and are published on GOV.UK:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/apprenticeships-in-england-by-industry-characteristics.
In 2016/17 there were:
Statistics for 2017/18 are due to be published in October 2019.