Question follow-through · 50503

Apprentices: Aldridge-brownhills

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she made of the number of apprenticeship starts in Aldridge-Brownhills constituency in (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2023-24.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 7 May 2025
Target answer date: 12 May 2025
Answer: 20 May 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

7 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she made of the number of apprenticeship starts in Aldridge-Brownhills constituency in (a) 2024-25 and (b) 2023-24.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 May 2025
Answer published
The number of apprenticeship starts in the Aldridge-Brownhills constituency are published in the apprenticeships accredited official statistics publication: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/2d7a8365-ec14-40eb-96d3-...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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