Speeches

Catherine West – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Catherine West on 2016-01-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many apprentices with special educational needs or disabilities have not completed their NHS apprenticeship placements.

Nick Boles

The table below shows this information for apprenticeship frameworks that are related to the transport Industry.

Table 1: Apprenticeship success rates for learners with a learning difficulty or disability on frameworks related to the transport industry (2013/14)

Frameworks

Overall Success Rate

Aviation Operations on the Ground

85.7%

Driving Goods Vehicles

70.7%

Rail Transport Engineering

81.0%

Road Passenger Transport – Bus and Coach

81.0%

Transport Engineering and Maintenance

96.2%

Vehicle Body and Paint Operations

58.3%

Vehicle Fitting

68.8%

Vehicle Maintenance and Repair

67.0%

Vehicle Parts Operations

72.2%

Notes

1) Frameworks with fewer than 20 leavers are excluded.

2) Figures for learning difficulties or disabilities are based on self-declaration by the learner

The Department does not collect the information required to estimate 5 per cent club or NHS apprenticeship success rates.