Manufacturing Industries: Apprentices

(asked on 11th July 2019) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Anne Milton Portrait
Anne Milton
This question was answered on 16th July 2019

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:

  • 36,170 starts in the manufacturing sector;
  • 1,620 starts in the energy sector; and
  • 31,610 starts in the construction sector.

Statistics for 2017/18 are due to be published in October 2019.

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