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 apprenticeship placements with a five per cent club employer.

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.