Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of the core target group of 16 to 19-year olds have (a) applied for and (b) been accepted onto a traineeship to date in Bury St Edmunds constituency.

I can confirm that traineeships provision is available in Bury St Edmunds, although traineeships data is not available at local authority or constituency level.

Traineeships are off to a strong start. Provisional data published on 16 October shows that 7,000 16 – 18-year-olds started a traineeship in the first year of the programme.

This data is published online at: www.gov.uk/government/statistics/learner-participation-outcomes-and-level-of-highest-qualification-held