Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds (a) started and (b) completed apprenticeships in 2017.

The information requested is not held centrally.

The department did publish a set of ad-hoc data tables on 1 March 2018 that included apprenticeship participation broken down by the indices of multiple deprivation rank based on the learners home postcode covering the 2015/16 academic year. The data on apprenticeship completions is not available.

The ‘Further education: indices of deprivation, England: 2015 to 2016’ tables can be viewed via: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/further-education-indices-of-deprivation-england-2015-to-2016.