Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of new apprenticeship starts in (a) engineering and (b) technical apprenticeships in the transport sector were women in the latest the period for which data is available.

The most recent statistics on apprenticeship starts by sector and sex are for the 2020/21 academic year and are published at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-in-england-by-industry-characteristics.