Apprentices

(asked on 2nd September 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Lord Austin of Dudley Portrait
Lord Austin of Dudley
(Non-affiliated - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of apprenticeships delivered by lead providers which sub-contract to smaller providers in each of the last five years.

Answered by
Robert Halfon Portrait
Robert Halfon
This question was answered on 12th September 2016

Apprenticeship Starts by sub-contracting provider (2010/11 to 2014/15)

Year

2010-11a

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15b

No subcontractor

389,500

391,600

381,420

328,990

359,540

Sub-contracted provision1

67,710

128,970

128,800

111,440

140,360

Total

457,200

520,600

510,200

440,400

499,900

It should be noted that:

a) Figures for 2011/12 onwards are not directly comparable to earlier years as a Single Individualised Learner Record (ILR) data collection system has been introduced. Small technical changes have been made in the way learners from more than one provision type are counted, leading to a removal of duplicate learners and a reduction in overall learner numbers of approximately 2 per cent. More information on the Single ILR is available at: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140107201041/http://www.thedataservice.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/C05DCDD5-67EE-4AD0-88B9-BEBC8F7F3300/0/SILR_Effects_SFR_Learners_June12.pdf

b) 1,500 apprenticeship starts could not be allocated to either category for the 2014-15 academic year.

d) Total volumes are rounded to the nearest 100; all other data is rounded to the nearest 10.

1 Sub-contracted provision covers those starts for which any portion of the aim is sub-contracted out to a partner provider.

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