PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Apprentices: Young People (8 December 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate he has made of the number of young people aged 16 to 24 years who are pursuing an apprenticeship in (a) West Worcestershire and (b) England.

Asked by:
Dame Harriett Baldwin (Conservative)

The table below shows the number of learners aged 16 to 24, participating on apprenticeships in the West Worcestershire Parliamentary Constituency, and England, from the 2017/18 to 2019/20 academic years:

Area	Age	2017/18	2018/19	2019/20
West Worcestershire	Under 19	270	240	220
	19-24	400	360	360
	Total	670	600	580
England	Under 19	176,550	160,960	135,570
	19-24	273,600	256,310	250,870
	Total	450,150	417,270	386,440

To note:

1. Data source is the Individualised Learner Record (ILR).
2. Volumes are rounded to the nearest 10.
3. The 2019/20 data covers the period affected by COVID-19 and the nationwide lockdown (i.e. from March 2020 onwards), which will have impacted on apprenticeship and traineeship learning and also provider reporting behaviour via the ILR.
4. The above West Worcestershire PCON figures - and further breakdowns - are available in this link: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/fast-track/8f8ab92a-20f0-44f5-b973-3b0ffe72d1a1.
5. The above England figures - and further breakdowns - are available in this link: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/fast-track/105ced16-d615-4f77-80ad-ba362d2ca443.
6. Participation is the count of learners that participated at any point during the year. Learners undertaking more than 1 course will appear only once in the grand total.
7. Age for apprenticeship participation is based on age as of 31 August of the academic year.
8. Age is based upon self-declaration by the learner.
9. Geography is based upon the home postcode of the learner. Where the postcode is outside of England or not known it is included in the 'Other' category.
10. Geographies are taken from the National Statistics Postcode Lookup based on boundaries as of April 2019.

Answered by:
Gillian Keegan (Conservative)
16 December 2020