Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much NHS trusts have paid apprenticeship training providers since 6 April 2017; how much of that spending has been on senior healthcare support worker (maternity support) apprenticeships at level 3; and how many people have started that such apprenticeship since 6 April 2017.

The department does not collect information on how much NHS trusts have paid to apprenticeship training providers or how much they have spent on a particular apprenticeship. Apprenticeship data is collected via the Individualised Learner Record (ILR). We cannot identify employers through the ILR, so are unable to identify NHS Trusts.

The Education and Skills Funding Agency publishes a list of the funding allocated to each training provider for apprenticeship starts annually and updates them throughout the year. Allocations for the 2016 to 2017 funding year can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sfa-funding-allocations-to-training-providers-2016-to-2017.

Based on the provisional full year data between 6 April 2017 and the end of July 2017 there were 10 apprenticeship starts on Health Maternity and Paediatric Support apprenticeships at level 3. These figures are rounded to the nearest 10.

Information on apprenticeships by sector subject area and level is publically available in the FE data library: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/586183/apprenticeships-starts-by-geography-learner-demographics-and-sector-subject-area.xlsx.