State Retirement Pensions: Females

(asked on 6th July 2017) - View Source
Questioner
Rachael Maskell Portrait
Rachael Maskell
(Labour (Co-op) - York Central)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many women born in the 1950s and affected by the change in the state pension age have (a) taken up and (b) completed apprenticeships.

Answered by
Anne Milton Portrait
Anne Milton
This question was answered on 13th July 2017

The table below shows the numbers of women born between 6 April 1950 and 31 December 1959 who have started and achieved an apprenticeship in the last five academic years:

Academic year

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

Starts

14,000

11,500

6,800

7,500

6,000

Achievements

6,800

6,700

5,100

3,900

3,500

Please note: for apprenticeship starts and achievements, age is calculated based on age at the start of the programme rather than based on 31 August of the academic year but does not include 16/17 figures.

Data on apprenticeship starts and achievements by age band, and by gender are available in the apprenticeship demographic tools:

Starts: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/624584/apprenticeships-demographics-data-tool-starts-v1.xlsx.

Achievements:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/624824/apprenticeships-demographics-data-tool-achievements-v1.xlsx.

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