The DfE has published the latest apprenticeships statistics covering apprenticeship starts, apprenticeship service registrations and commitments. It shows there have been 361,400 apprenticeship starts reported to date between August 2018 and June 2019 for the 2018/19 academic year. This compares to 341,700 for the equivalent period in 2017/18. Starts in the same period for 2016/17 were 472,500 and in 2015/16 they were 458,500.
