Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeships in STEM industries have been taken up since 2010.
The table attached shows the number of apprenticeship starts in ‘Construction, Planning and the Built Environment’, ‘Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies’, ‘Information and Communications Technology’ and ‘Science and Mathematics’ sector subject areas for each academic year since 2009/10.
This data is published in the ‘FE data library: apprenticeships’ which can be viewed at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fe-data-library-apprenticeships.