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Department for Education · 5 July 2024 – present

Apprenticeship starts during the Labour 2024– government

2022/23 academic year → 2025/26 academic year · 3 periods

↓ 8.4%−28,370 starts

Apprenticeship starts fell by 8.4% over the period, from 337,140 starts (2022/23 academic year, the level when the government took office) to 308,770 (2025/26 academic year, the latest available).

  1. Inherited level 2022/23 academic year: 337,140
  2. Latest 2025/26 academic year: 308,770
  3. method: latest complete period before start / before end

Changes during this period do not by themselves show what the government caused. Statistics reflect many influences, including earlier decisions, the economy and how the data is collected.

Apprenticeship starts: 2017/18 academic year to 2025/26 academic yearConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour0100k200k300k201820202022202420262017/18 academic year: 375,760 starts · published 4 August 20262018/19 academic year: 393,380 starts · published 4 August 20262019/20 academic year: 322,530 starts · published 4 August 20262020/21 academic year: 321,440 starts · published 4 August 20262021/22 academic year: 349,190 starts · published 4 August 20262022/23 academic year: 337,140 starts · published 4 August 20262023/24 academic year: 339,580 starts · published 4 August 20262024/25 academic year: 353,500 starts · published 4 August 20262025/26 academic year: 308,770 starts · published 4 August 2026
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Definition and caveats

The number of apprenticeships started in England in the academic year, across all ages, levels and funding types.

Doesn’t measure: Whether the apprenticeship was completed: achievements are published separately.