Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of new apprenticeship starts were for (a) level 2, (b) level 3, (c) level 4 and (d) level 5 and above in each month of each year since 2014.

The attached table shows the proportion of apprenticeship starts per level of each month of the academic years 2014/15 to 2018/19, and the months up to April of the 2019/20 academic year.

Full-year figures for 2014/15 to 2018/19 are published here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/881571/201920-april_monthly-app-starts-fwk.xlsx. Reported-to-date figures for 2019/20 are published here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/894270/june-2020-release_underlying-CSV-app-data-to-april-2020.csv.