Asked by: Rachel Taylor (Labour - North Warwickshire and Bedworth)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has commissioned research on the potential impact of financial skills training on the ability of young people to manage their finances; and if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of including such training in the curriculum.
Answered by Catherine McKinnell - Minister of State (Education)
I refer my hon. Friend, the Member for North Warwickshire and Bedworth, to the answer of 14 October 2024 to Question 7255.
Asked by: Rachel Taylor (Labour - North Warwickshire and Bedworth)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeship schemes are operating in (a) North Warwickshire and Bedworth constituency, (b) North Warwickshire and (c) Nuneaton and Bedworth.
Answered by Janet Daby - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
So far in the 2023/24 academic year from August to April there have been 1,310 apprenticeship participants in North Warwickshire and Bedworth constituency, 910 in North Warwickshire local authority district and 1,890 in Nuneaton and Bedworth local authority district. In the 2022/23 full academic year there were 1,470,990 and 2,110 participants respectively.
Note:
(1) Figures for 2023/24 are provisional and cover the first three quarters (August 2023 to April 2024). All other years are final, full-year figures.
(2) Volumes are rounded to the nearest 10.
(3) Participation is the count of learners that participated at any point during the year. Learners undertaking more than one course will appear only once in the grand total.
(4) Figures are based on learner home postcode.
These figures are published in the Apprenticeships statistics publication, which can accessed here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships.