Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Degree Apprenticeship places have been available in each of the last ten years.

Degree apprenticeships provide people with high-quality training and are important in supporting productivity, social mobility and widening participation in higher education and employment.

The department has developed an employer-led apprenticeship system with over 5,000 employers. Today there are over 170 degree-level apprenticeships in wide range of career routes. Employers can choose how many degree-level apprentices they take-on each year. The table below shows the number of people starting on degree-level apprenticeships in each year since 2014. The department has seen year-on-year growth of degree-level apprenticeships with over 195,000 starts since their introduction and we are providing an additional £40 million over the next two years to support degree apprenticeship providers to expand and help more people access this provision, on top of the department’s £8 million investment in the 2022/23 financial year.