Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeship starts there were by 18 to 24 year olds in (a) 2015-16 and (b) 2016-17.

This data can be found in Tables 7 and 22 of the main tables of the further education and skills statistical first release:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/further-education-and-skills-statistical-first-release-sfr.

More granular breakdowns of starts by age can be found in the apprenticeships FE data library under the demographics data tool:

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