Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many (1) graduate recruitments, and (2) apprentice recruitments, there have been in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland, and (d) Northern Ireland, in each year since 2020.

The exact data requested is not held by the department, but we publish data on the number and proportion of first degree graduates and apprenticeship achievers that are in sustained employment at around one year after graduation, for UK-domiciled graduates graduating from English higher education providers only and apprentices achieving their qualification in England. The latest available data is for learners qualifying in 2020/21 who were in sustained employment in the 2022/23 tax year. More recent data is unavailable due to lags in data availability.

These statistics are available in the following publications:

• ‘Further Education Outcomes’, last released in November 2024: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/further-education-outcomes/2021-22.
• ‘LEO Graduate and Postgraduate Outcomes’, last released in June 2025: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/leo-graduate-and-postgraduate-outcomes/2022-23.

The data is also available at the following linked tables derived from those publications:

• Apprenticeship graduates: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/310f48b3-fa52-4fd3-7a4a-08de11c58191.
• First Degree graduates: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/c46f37fc-5cf2-487c-95b0-08de11382822.