To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeships began in (a) Gloucester, (b) Gloucestershire, (c) the South West and (d) England in each year between 2009 and 2022.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprentices did not complete their apprenticeship in full in (a) Gloucester constituency, (b) Gloucestershire, (c) the South West and (d) England in each year between 2009 and 2022.

Apprenticeship starts and achievements for the requested geographies are presented in the attached table. Apprenticeship achievements correspond to the volume of apprenticeship programmes that are successfully completed.

Please note that apprenticeship starts and achievements within an academic year cannot be used to infer the proportion of apprenticeships that are achieved. They are independent performance metrics. Typically, apprenticeships are achieved in a subsequent academic year to the one they started in.

Apprenticeship Starts Table (xlsx, 27.0KB)