Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding his Department has allocated to businesses in Coventry to support the recruitment of apprentices in each of the last eight years.

The Education and Skills Funding Agency has published allocations to training providers, colleges, local authorities and academies over the past eight years. This can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-education-funding-allocations#published-allocations.

Information is not published or held for Coventry businesses. Funding is allocated to support the delivery of the apprenticeship programme rather than specifically for the recruitment of apprentices.

Additionally in Coventry, in this academic year, the Apprenticeships Support and Knowledge in schools programme has delivered in:

• 16 schools/colleges,
• with 43 activities,
• reaching 458 students and 18 teachers.