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Apprentices

Answer

Construction Skills and Summit Skills are the Sector Skills Councils with responsibility for setting occupational standards and ensuring that suitable apprenticeship frameworks are in place for the housing industry.The Department will ask for an assessment of the adequacy and sufficiency of apprenticeship training in the industry and I will write to the hon. Member when I have received and considered the response.The following table shows apprenticeship starts for the construction framework from 2002/03, to 2009/10 (provisional data). The number of people starting an apprenticeship in the construction industry has declined in recent years, which reflects overall employment levels in the sector.

Apprenticeship starts for construction framework, 2002/03 to 2009/10
Construction	Apprenticeship starts
2002/03	11,900
2003/04	15,000
2004/05	18,500
2005/06	15,500
2006/07	20,700
2007/08	20,400
2008/09	16,800
2009/10 (provisional)	13,400
Notes:
1. Figures are rounded to the nearest hundred.
2. Provisional numbers for 2009/10 are not comparable with previous years. There can be significant variation between provisional and final estimates and typically these numbers can be expected to be revised upwards. While subsequent revisions to 2009/10 data may be different from previous years, in 2008/09 the final number of starts was up to approximately 2.5% higher.
Source:
Individualised Learner Record

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

34260; 521 c830-1W

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Construction Apprentices

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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