Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the change has been in proportion and number of new apprenticeship starts since May 2017.

There have been 43,600 apprenticeship starts for the provisional 2016/17 academic year since May 2017 to July 2017.

These figures are available in the Statistical First Release, published on 12 October 2017:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/650552/SFR_53_2017_main_tables.ods.

Additionally, the Further Education data library also holds further information and breakdowns for apprenticeship starts:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fe-data-library.