Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that women can access high-quality apprenticeships.

Women have accounted for the majority of apprenticeship starts in recent years - 52.8 per cent in 2015/16.

But we know there are gender representation disparities in some sectors. We are addressing this proactively through our Diversity Champions Network, by taking part in the 2018 Year of Engineering campaign and other Government actions.