Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department holds data on the number of apprenticeship training courses currently awaiting approval.

The approval of apprenticeship standards is within the remit of the Institute for Apprenticeships. Information about apprenticeship standards, including the number of standards in development, is available on their website: https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/.