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<p>The attached table shows the figures for apprenticeship starts for Wolverhampton
North East constituency for each month by academic year from 2015/16 to 2018/19 (quarter
1 reported to date).</p><p>In May 2017, there were significant structural changes
to the apprenticeship funding system, including the introduction of the apprenticeship
levy and apprenticeship service. The profile of apprenticeship starts changed significantly,
both in the run-up to the introduction of the levy and subsequently. Care should be
taken when comparing individual months with previous years as they are unlikely to
provide a meaningful year-on-year trend. Numbers of reported starts are likely to
change as the reforms to apprenticeship funding continue to bed in and employers engage
with the new system.</p><p>The information requested is not held centrally regarding
the proportion of levy-paying firms that have taken on apprentices. However, the department
holds information on the number of apprenticeship service accounts (ASAs) registered.
As of 31 December 2018, there were 16,100 ASAs registered on the apprenticeship service.</p><p>Since
the introduction of the levy, 268,500 levy-supported starts have been recorded for
England. Levy-supported learners are those supported by levy-paying organisations
using at least £1 of their own levy funds. For context, there have been 555,800 total
starts for England since the levy (from quarter 4 of 2016/17 to quarter 1 of 2018/19).</p><p>In
addition, in January 2018, we published that 91.7 percent of those who had PAYE schemes
with apprenticeship levy declarations in England of over £150,000 had registered on
the apprenticeship service.</p><p> </p>
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