Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much has been spent from the public purse on apprenticeships per capita in (a) St Helens North constituency, (b) Merseyside, (c) the North West and (d) the UK in each year since 2010.

The total funding provided to support apprenticeships in England is published in our annual funding statement here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skills-funding-agency-annual-report-and-accounts-2015-to-2016

We do not hold the relevant data centrally to provide details of per capita apprenticeship spend as requested. However, the latest data on apprenticeship starts by constituency and region can be found in the supplementary tables accompanying the Statistical First Release SFA/SFR36, published on 17 November 2016: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/570129/learner-participation-outcomes-and-level-of-highest-qualification-data-tables-November16.xls