Current status: Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 3 February 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many modern apprenticeships have been started to date.
Skills Development Scotland (SDS) publish modern apprenticeship (MA) statistics on a quarterly basis. These published statistics are broken down by age, gender, framework, level and local authority area and can be accessed via SDS' website: https://www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk/publications-statistics/.
The most recent published statistics are for quarter two of 2015-16, i.e. to end September 2015. For your ease of reference I can advise that at this point there had been 12,473 MA starts.
Since we established SDS in 2008, there have been 155,005 MA starts between 2008-09 to 2014-15.