Department for Education · 13 December 20195 July 2024

Apprenticeship achievements during the Conservative 2019–2024 government

2018/19 academic year2022/23 academic year · 4 periods

12.3%22,830 achievements

Apprenticeship achievements fell by 12.3% over the period, from 185,150 achievements (2018/19 academic year, the level when the government took office) to 162,320 (2022/23 academic year, the last complete period before it left office).

  1. Inherited level 2018/19 academic year: 185,150
  2. Level when it left 2022/23 academic year: 162,320
  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 achievements: 2017/18 academic year to 2025/26 academic yearConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour0100k200k201820202022202420262017/18 academic year: 276,160 achievements · published 4 August 20262018/19 academic year: 185,150 achievements · published 4 August 20262019/20 academic year: 146,900 achievements · published 4 August 20262020/21 academic year: 156,530 achievements · published 4 August 20262021/22 academic year: 137,220 achievements · published 4 August 20262022/23 academic year: 162,320 achievements · published 4 August 20262023/24 academic year: 178,220 achievements · published 4 August 20262024/25 academic year: 198,330 achievements · published 4 August 20262025/26 academic year: 146,210 achievements · published 4 August 2026

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Definition and caveats

The number of apprenticeships completed successfully in England in the academic year.

Doesn’t measure: Starts in the same year: an achievement usually belongs to a start from an earlier year.