Apprentices

(asked on 31st January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of people who have begun an apprenticeship in (a) Coventry North East constituency, (b) Coventry, (c) the West Midlands and (d) England in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Alex Burghart Portrait
Alex Burghart
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 3rd February 2022

Over five years of substantial reforms, we have made apprenticeships longer and better, with more off the job training and assessment at the end. We have introduced high quality employer designed standards, put funding on a sustainable footing through the introduction of the apprenticeship levy, and introduced the register for apprenticeship training providers to ensure apprentices receive high quality training.

Care should be taken when comparing apprenticeship start figures across years, due to the impact of these reforms, and the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on employer recruitment.

Apprenticeship starts for Coventry North East parliamentary constituency, Coventry Unitary Authority, West Midlands Region and England in the last 5 full academic years and the first quarter of the current academic year are shown in the table below:

2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

2019/20

2020/21

2021/22 [1]

Coventry North East constituency

1,340

980

1,010

830

760

280

Coventry Unitary Authority

3,400

2,400

2,610

2,250

2,010

790

West Midlands

60,330

42,650

45,670

36,920

36,130

14,150

England

494,900

375,800

393,400

322,500

321,400

130,200

[1] August to October, reported to date

Note:

  1. Geographical breakdowns are rounded to the nearest 10, the England totals are rounded to the nearest 100.
  2. Total values for England include a small number of learners living outside England where a home address is not known.
  3. Source: Individualised Learner Record
  4. Geography is based upon the home postcode of the learner.

Further information on apprenticeship starts can be found in the apprenticeships and traineeships statistics publication: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships.

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