Modern Apprenticeships

HC Deb 16 April 2002 vol 383 cc899-903W

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many people, broken down

by sector and region (a) have undertaken and (b) are undertaking modern apprenticeships. [49849]

Mr. Ivan Lewis

The following tables contain the requested information. The first table contains the total number of starts on Advanced Modern Apprenticeships (AMA) and Foundation Modern Apprenticeships (FMA) between September 1995 and December 2001. The second table contains the number in learning on 23 December 2001. For both tables, the breakdown sector and region is estimated from incomplete information. Where the total number of learners in a

Number of modern apprenticeships undertaken from September 1995 to December 2001
Sector	South East	London	Eastern	South West	West Midlands	East Midlands	Yorkshire and Humber	North West	North East	England
101 Agriculture and commercial horticulture	190	50	380	1,130	770	430	760	567	220	4,500
102 Business administration	10,220	6,080	9,130	8,100	13,700	9,880	13,610	21,928	12,030	104,540
103 Chemicals industry	30	20	10	0	20	10	170	462	150	860
104 Early years care and education	4,480	4,750	1,900	2,330	3,090	2,250	1,730	4,893	890	26,360
105 Electrotechnical industry	3,010	2,300	1,850	2,280	2,100	2,190	2,240	3,390	730	20,110
106 Engineering manufacture	7,500	2,360	4,550	6,260	7,790	5,130	5,940	11,044	5,680	56,230
107 Engineering construction	100	20	40	10	90	40	70	345	490	1,170
108 Information technology	2,950	1,920	1,900	1,280	1,710	1,800	5,520	2,670	1,710	21,440
111 Polymers	0	10	20	0	40	70	60	48	10	270
112 Retailing	10,030	9,140	9,530	5,840	9,290	5,460	8,900	11,418	7,430	77,070
113 Steel industry	40	10	30	70	340	80	290	50	50	960
115 Travel services	1,410	990	970	1,470	1,420	760	1,100	2,056	650	10,830
116 Construction	4,940	2,130	5,490	4,460	4,770	4,860	7,490	11,206	4,890	50,140
117 Plumbing	1,370	730	910	1,070	970	1,150	1,260	1,752	720	9,940
201 Accountancy	1,840	820	1,550	1,520	1,990	2,010	2,210	3,009	920	15,860
202 Aviation	210	110	300	60	2,030	10	30	330	0	3,100
204 Craft baking	40	10	40	80	50	50	20	233	120	640
205 Builders merchants	90	50	60	60	100	50	80	146	50	680
206 Bus and coach	40	70	70	20	420	10	0	305	0	930
210 Clothing	10	10	20	0	70	140	120	292	100	740
211 Electricity supply industry	60	50	70	40	40	70	100	113	10	540
212 Heating, ventilation, air conditioning	510	770	300	440	300	310	380	728	150	3,900
213 Residential estate agency	390	210	400	220	130	90	60	146	70	1,730
214 Furniture manufacture	80	10	30	90	30	200	150	427	20	1,030
216 Glass	100	40	70	120	140	180	250	1,074	40	2,000
217 Hairdressing	8,310	5,890	5,940	5,520	5,630	4,720	6,220	10,413	3,960	56,620
219 Amenity horticulture	640	130	420	490	390	290	260	751	200	3,580
220 Hospitality	9,550	9,660	8,030	7,300	9,180	7,110	7,040	11,639	3,980	73,610
225 Meat industry	50	0	350	50	360	220	180	450	150	1,800
227 Printing	500	690	400	440	200	360	510	570	160	3,830
228 Road haulage and distribution	450	60	180	130	120	210	350	350	310	2,160
230 Security	90	550	50	130	20	20	40	493	70	1,470
231 Sports and recreation	1,810	1,010	1,000	1,020	920	390	800	2,175	580	9,700
232 Telecommunications	490	1,640	260	1,970	320	70	260	686	200	5,930
234 Marine industry	130	0	70	270	0	10	30	153	70	730
235 Motor industry	5,880	3,740	3,820	6,020	4,120	4,650	4,390	6,411	2,330	41,410
236 Health and social care	6,920	2,100	4,110	5,340	5,460	3,080	4,790	9,261	3,560	44,610
237 Newspapers	40	60	10	20	50	10	10	78	0	270
241 Banking services	0	230	90	0	220	120	50	7	0	730
244 Floristry	160	30	100	130	100	40	80	148	40	840
247 Horse industry	70	10	160	90	50	80	20	63	20	550
248 Insurance	50	290	120	130	220	80	110	452	10	1,460
254 Agriculture and garden machinery	80	0	170	280	240	180	180	105	40	1,270
257 Electronic system servicing	260	80	60	10	250	20	50	38	0	760
259 International trade	50	110	80	20	100	20	60	106	10	560
260 Management	260	360	260	220	400	280	150	367	240	2,540
262 Animal care	560	370	1,560	760	540	520	490	626	240	5,690
263 Customer service	6,990	10,040	5,010	5,250	5,490	5,940	5,610	10,370	5,180	59,930
264 Food and drink	70	0	110	60	50	210	260	419	40	1,200
265 Gas industry	120	60	70	50	70	30	140	211	20	770
267 Warehousing	240	80	230	140	360	300	360	590	240	2,550
276 Textiles	0	0	0	0	20	200	170	42	0	440
270 Health and beauty therapy	10	0	0	20	20	20	30	64	60	230
282 Building services engineers	10	30	0	20	40	30	0	72	0	210
283 Manufacturing	40	0	80	100	340	40	320	314	40	1,260

Sources:

Trainee Database System (to 25 March 2001)

LSC Individualised Learner Records (from 26 March 2001)

Number undertaking modern apprenticeships on 23 December 2001
Sector	South East	London	Eastern	South West	West Midlands	East Midlands	Yorkshire and Humber	North West	North East	England
101 Agriculture and commercial horticulture	50	50	140	350	360	140	190	220	40	1,530
102 Business administration	2,490	1,370	2,250	2,060	3,280	2,280	3,610	5,190	2,680	25,200
104 Early years care and education	1,610	1,690	720	970	1,090	830	510	1,840	320	9,590
105 Electrical installation eng./national electrot	970	1,070	730	940	850	750	810	820	220	7,160
106 Engineering manufacture	3,740	730	1,600	2,780	2,690	1,840	2,110	4,200	1,900	21,590
107 Engineering construction (AMA only)	40	50	30	20	130	10	60	150	260	740
108 Information technology	940	370	340	280	430	310	1,290	550	480	5,000
112 Retailing	1,840	1,260	1,800	1,180	1,540	970	1,850	2,110	1,200	13,750
115 Travel services	100	180	30	340	250	30	60	360	40	1,390
116 Construction	2,040	740	2,250	1,760	1,680	1,620	2,420	3,780	1,820	18,110
117 Plumbing	660	310	400	500	450	470	540	710	270	4,320
201 Accountancy	490	130	360	390	450	500	610	840	210	3,980
202 Aviation	110	10	140	50	2,000	0	10	200	0	2,540

sector across all regions is estimated to be 200 or less, no sector and region is estimated from incomplete estimate is provided. All other estimates are rounded to nearest 10.

Number undertaking modern apprenticeships on 23 December 2001
Sector	South East	London	Eastern	South West	West Midlands	East Midlands	Yorkshire and Humber	North West	North East	England
206 Bus and coach	10	20	40	0	140	0	0	80	0	290
211 Electricity supply industry (AMA only)	20	10	10	50	90	60	70	40	0	350
212 Heating, ventilation, air conditioning and
refrigeration.	120	320	90	140	110	50	210	330	20	1,390
213 Residential estate agency	90	10	50	40	30	20	20	10	20	280
215 Furniture manufacture	60	10	20	20	10	90	100	180	0	490
216 Glass	10	0	0	30	0	0	20	540	0	600
217 Hairdressing	2,450	1,370	1,760	1,650	1,560	1,300	1,750	3,050	1,120	16,020
219 Amenity horticulture	280	30	150	160	110	120	110	310	70	1,350
220 Hospitality	2,380	1,450	1,800	1,900	2,320	1,970	1,730	3,070	1,030	17,640
225 Meat industry	0	0	70	10	60	50	30	80	40	340
227 Printing	20	30	50	50	50	70	90	100	20	480
230 Security	10	220	0	30	0	0	10	160	10	450
231 Sports and recreation	520	260	350	250	290	70	250	720	170	2,870
232 Telecommunications	80	1,220	120	900	110	0	60	200	300	2,720
233 Timber trade (wood machining) (AMA only)	10	40	20	40	20	50	30	30	0	240
234 Marine industry (AMA only)	30	0	0	180	0	0	0	0	0	21(1
235 Motor industry	1,480	930	750	1,810	930	1,060	1,120	1,840	740	10,660
236 Health and social care	1,760	650	1,090	1,440	1,240	830	1,280	2,340	950	11,560
244 Floristry	70	10	30	40	30	10	30	50	10	270
247 Horse industry	80	120	250	150	70	90	50	90	10	910
248 Insurance	60	80	50	100	30	60	40	180	0	590
254 Agriculture and garden machinery	40	0	40	100	90	70	60	50	10	460
257 Electronic system servicing	130	40	30	50	20	10	20	30	0	32(1
260 Management (AMA only)	180	170	120	120	170	120	80	210	110	1,261
262 Animal care	80	40	290	90	60	20	70	140	50	830
263 Customer service	1,960	1,730	1,250	1,240	1,390	1,590	1,510	2,800	1,400	14,87(1
264 Food and drink manufacturing operations	40	20	50	70	60	80	80	150	40	580
265 Gas industry (AMA only)	40	10	0	20	10	0	50	90	10	23(1
267 Warehousing	140	50	200	110	270	190	230	510	190	1,900
283 Manufacturing operation (FMA only)	30	0	20	90	230	20	120	150	10	670

Sources:

Trainee Database System (to 25 March 2001)

LSC Individualised Learner Records (from 26 March 2001)