Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many private sector organisations operating as independent training providers supplied publicly funded training to apprentices in the financial years (1) 2018–19, (2) 2019–20, (3) 2020–21, (4) 2021–22, and (5) 2022–23; and of those, how many (a) supplied such training in 2018–19 but not 2022–23, and (b) supplied training in every one of those years.

The number of providers in the 'Private Sector Publicly Funded’ provider type with participating apprentices between the 2018/19 and 2022/23 academic years are shown in the table below. A category that corresponds to 'Independent Training Providers' is not available

Of the 1021 providers in the 2018/19 academic year, 373 did not have any participating learners in 2022/23, whilst 642 providers had participating learners in each of the years shown.

Please note:
(1) Data source is the Individualised Learner Record.

(2) Figures are derived from the ‘Underlying data - apprenticeship participation’ supporting file that accompanies the Apprenticeships statistics publication, found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/apprenticeships.

(3) Providers have at least one funded apprenticeship in the academic year shown.

(4) Providers are identified based on unique UK Provider Reference Number (UKPRN) number. Providers that have merged and changed UKPRN will not be matched as the same provider between different academic years.