Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of employers offers apprenticeships to 16 to 19 year olds.

Information on the proportion of employers offering apprenticeships is not centrally collected. However, data from the 2014 UKCES Employer Perspectives Survey^[1] show that 16 percent of all employers in the UK offered apprenticeships. The majority of these (15% of all employers) were formal apprenticeships.

Among those employers offering formal apprenticeships in the UK, 74 percent offered them to 16 to 18 year olds and 75 per cent offered them to 19 to 24 year olds. Data is not available for the 16 to 19 age group.

[1]https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/373769/14.11.11._EPS_2014_-_Main_Report_full_V2.pdf (p.90)