To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many apprenticeships in accounting were awarded by each awarding body in the last 12 months. (304504)

There were 2,700 achievements in the accountancy apprenticeship framework in 2007/08, the latest year for which we have complete data. Final data for the 2008/09 academic year will be published on 17 December. In-year data for 2008/09 can be found in a Statistical First Release at:

http://www.thedataservice.org.uk/statistics/sfroct09/

Information on apprenticeship achievements by awarding body is not available.