Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many women have started courses in STEM subjects at colleges in Dudley in each of the last five years.

The attached table provides the number of aims delivered on STEM-related courses for females in Dudley in education and training provision, for each academic year since 2013/14 and covers all further education (FE) providers. In addition, there is a second table providing the number of female starts on STEM-related apprenticeships. Both tables include students of all ages for Dudley as well as for England.

The tables provide the number of learning aims (i.e. courses, programmes, qualifications and units) students have taken in STEM-related FE sector subject areas.

This data includes a student more than once where they take or progress to more than one aim/qualification in STEM.