Apprentices: Wind Power
(asked on 11th November 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many apprenticeships relating to wind technology they have funded in (1) 2016, (2) 2017, (3) 2018, (4) 2019, and (5) 2020 to date.
The department has published information on apprenticeship starts by broad industry sector between the 2012/13 and 2018/19 academic years. Data for the 2019/20 academic year will be published in February 2021.
Apprenticeship starts relating to wind technology, oil and gas and solar technology are not published separately. However, wind and solar technology are most likely to be included in sector D: Energy Utilities and oil and gas within apprenticeship starts in sector B: Mining, C: Manufacturing or D: Energy Utilities, depending on whether the focus is on the extraction or manufacturing of oil and gas. The following table shows the number of apprenticeship starts by broad industry sector since the 2016/17 academic year.
Number of apprenticeship starts by industry sector, 2016/17 - 2018/19.
| Academic year | ||||
| 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | |
| Total matched apprenticeship starts | ||||
| Sector | ||||
| A - Agriculture | 2,510 | 2,190 | 1,510 | 1,490 |
| B - Mining | 170 | 180 | 260 | 220 |
| C - Manufacturing | 36,820 | 36,170 | 26,160 | 26,850 |
| D - Energy utilities | 2,540 | 1,620 | 1,170 | 1,420 |
| E - Water utilities | 1,740 | 1,760 | 1,620 | 1,650 |
| F - Construction | 31,710 | 31,610 | 27,390 | 27,180 |
| G - Wholesale and retail trade | 47,790 | 44,420 | 37,920 | 40,770 |
| H - Transportation | 12,170 | 11,950 | 9,080 | 11,140 |
| I - Accommodation/catering | 32,490 | 27,050 | 18,290 | 18,580 |
| J - Information/communication | 8,900 | 9,410 | 10,450 | 12,000 |
| K - Financial services | 16,150 | 14,660 | 11,870 | 13,700 |
| L - Real estate | 7,840 | 7,980 | 5,780 | 5,970 |
| M - Professional/scientific | 22,460 | 21,130 | 21,710 | 22,970 |
| N - Administrative services | 29,600 | 30,180 | 22,670 | 21,630 |
| O - Public administration | 21,500 | 22,800 | 24,760 | 27,830 |
| P - Education | 33,370 | 33,780 | 28,000 | 30,230 |
| Q - Health/social work | 117,410 | 121,680 | 75,450 | 81,290 |
| R - Arts/entertainment | 11,440 | 12,030 | 8,010 | 8,030 |
| S - Other service activities | 19,670 | 18,690 | 13,100 | 11,900 |
| T - Household activities | 130 | 150 | 70 | 40 |
| U - Extraterritorial activities | c | c | c | c |
| Unknown | 620 | 390 | 1,600 | 1,300 |
Source: DfE Apprenticeship starts by industry characteristics 2018/19 official statistics publication.