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Apprentices: Employment

Volume 475: debated on Tuesday 13 May 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what assessment he has made of apprenticeships that are statistically (a) most and (b) least likely to end in employment within 12 months of close of training. (205318)

Data are not available for the 12 months following an apprentice completing their framework. The information provided in the following table shows apprentice destinations immediately following the completion of their apprenticeship.

Immediate destination of 2005/06 apprenticeships framework completions by sector

Percentage

Sector

Employed1

Unemployed

Training

Other2

Total completions3

Government Skills (Central Government)

100

0

0

0

275

LLUK (HE and FE)

100

0

0

0

13

Proskills (process and manufacturing)

92

1

0

7

590

Skillfast (fashion and textiles)

89

1

0

10

483

Skills for Logistics (delivery and storage)

87

2

0

12

853

Skills for Security4

85

0

0

15

544

People 1st (hospitality, travel and tourism)

83

0

0

16

8,111

SEMTA (engineering)

82

1

1

16

8,715

Inst of Customer Service4

81

1

0

18

8,266

GoSkills (passenger transport)

80

5

0

15

1,374

e-skills (IT and telecoms)

80

1

1

17

4,991

Cogent (chemicals, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas)

80

3

1

16

88

Habia (hair and beauty)4

79

1

1

19

8,375

Skillsmart Retail

78

2

0

19

3,832

Automotive Skills

78

1

1

21

6,385

Lantra (environmental and land-based)

77

2

2

19

2,224

SummitSkills (building services engineering)

76

0

2

22

5,783

Skills for Health

76

2

5

17

3,564

SkillsActive (sport and recreation)

76

0

3

21

2,018

Others4, 5

75

2

0

23

359

Financial Services

74

0

0

26

165

Council for Administration4

72

3

1

24

13,648

Improve (food and drink manufacture)

71

1

0

28

298

Asset Skills (property and cleaning)

68

0

0

32

125

Skills for Care and Development

68

6

2

24

6,039

ECITB/Construction

62

1

0

36

9,184

Creative and Cultural

6

6

6

6

6

Skills for Justice

6

6

6

6

6

Skillset (creative media industries)

6

6

6

6

6

Total

76

2

1

21

296,310

1 Proportions are calculated as a proportion of the framework completions where a destination is known.

2 Other destination includes death, pregnancy and awaiting confirmation of achievement.

3 Total does not include those framework achievements for which the destination is unknown.

4 Indicates a sector that is not a Sector Skills Council.

5 Others sectors includes minor bodies and where records are incomplete.

6 Indicates fewer than 10 completions.

Source:

LSC Work Based Learning Individualised Learner record.