Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what comparative estimate he has made of the apprenticeship uptake in Greater Manchester in (a) the last twelve months and (b) the previous three years.
We publish the number of apprenticeship starts by academic year and local authority in the ‘FE data library’: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/fe-data-library.
The table attached shows the figures for the local authorities within Greater Manchester from 2013/14.