Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 21 June (HL669), what are the exceptional conditions in which apprenticeships of less than 12 months are published in their statistics on apprenticeships.

Apprenticeships with a duration of less than 12 months are included in published statistics where the apprentice is 19 years or older on the day they start their apprenticeship and not all elements of the framework are being delivered. This could be because of Recognition of Prior Learning or previously certificated achievement of qualifications. In all cases, the minimum length of the apprenticeship is six months.