Apprenticeships started in relation to target measure by quarter and year (excluding degree apprenticeships)

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Variable	Visibility	Selected values	Action
Data description	Shown in table	Number of apprenticeship starts	Value cannot be changed
Academic year	Shown in table	All 11 values	Change values
Programme type	Shown in table	All 4 values	Change values
Sector	Shown in table	All 206 values	Change values
Gender	Shown in table	All 5 values	Change values
Age group	Shown in table	All 13 values	Change values
Home region	Shown in table	All 29 values	Change values
Quarter	Shown in table	All 5 values	Change values

Table

Standard shorthand is used in this table: [c] = confidential information, [p] = provisional, [t] = total.

Data values	Data description	Academic year	Programme type	Sector	Gender	Age group	Home region	Quarter
7,010 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	All areas	Q1
6,790 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	Wales	Q1
1,385 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	North Wales region	Q1
125 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	Isle of Anglesey	Q1
255 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	Gwynedd	Q1
205 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	Conwy	Q1
185 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	Denbighshire	Q1
365 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	Flintshire	Q1
255 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	Wrexham	Q1
390 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	Mid Wales region	Q1
280 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	Powys	Q1
105 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	Ceredigion	Q1
1,800 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	South West Wales region	Q1
370 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	Pembrokeshire	Q1
455 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	Carmarthenshire	Q1
585 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	Swansea	Q1
390 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	Neath Port Talbot	Q1
3,220 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	South East Wales region	Q1
385 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	Bridgend	Q1
250 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	The Vale of Glamorgan	Q1
580 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	Rhondda Cynon Taf	Q1
135 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	Merthyr Tydfil	Q1
370 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	Caerphilly	Q1
180 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	Blaenau Gwent	Q1
220 [t] [p]	Number of apprenticeship starts	2025-26	All apprenticeship programmes	All Programmes	All learners	All ages	Torfaen	Q1

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Metadata

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Next update expected:May 2026

Updates

• 19th February 2026: Dataset first published.

Main information

• Designation: Official statistics
• Data provider: Welsh Government
• Data source: Lifelong Learning Wales Record (LLWR)
• Time period covered: August 2015 to August 2026

Overview

• Summary of dataset and variables:

  The Programme for Government contained a target to create 125,000 all-age apprenticeships. During the Economy, Trade and Rural Affairs Committee meeting on 26 June 2024, the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Welsh Language agreed a new target of 100,000 all-age apprenticeships to maintain the previous Senedd term’s target of 100,000. For the purposes of this measure and to align with the quarterly reporting periods for these statistics, we consider the Senedd time period as stretching from 2020/21 Q4 to 2025/26 Q3 (1 May 2021 to 30 April 2026).

  This table contains the number of apprenticeship programmes taken in Wales at further education institutions and by private training providers. It does not include apprenticeships delivered by higher education institutions. Degree apprenticeships are not included.

  The dataset contains the following variables:

  Academic year - Runs from 1st August to 31st July.

  Quarter - Q1 (Aug to Oct), Q2 (Nov to Jan), Q3 (Feb to Apr), Q4 (May to Jul).

  Programme type - Three level of apprenticeships: level 2 foundation apprenticeships, level 3 apprenticeships, level 4+ higher apprenticeships.

  Sector - Reflect the type of work and training being undertaken by the learner. Can be broken down into individual sector frameworks.

  Age group - Age of the learner at 31st August of the academic year.

  Home region - The local authority of domicile of the learner, calculated using the learner's home postcode.

  Gender - It is displayed as it is collected in the data, but this does not follow best practice. We will evaluate how gender and/or sex should be collected in the Lifelong Learning Record Wales (LLWR).

• Data collection or calculation:

  These charts relating to the target use a rigorous measure of apprenticeship programme starts which takes account of early drop outs (with the first 8 weeks) and transfers between apprenticeships.

  2025/26 Q1 data is calculated using the month 6 freeze of the Lifelong Learning Wales record (LLWR). This freeze was produced on the 22nd January 2026

  New work-based learning contract arrangements came into effect on 1st August 2021. This resulted in the transfer of around 4,800 existing apprentices to new providers with new programme records created on the Lifelong Learning Wales Record. New programme records resulting from a transfer are usually included in the statistics on apprenticeship starts with the exception of the target measure. In 2021/22 Q1, however, we excluded the records as so many learners were transferred that the statistics would have presented a misleading picture of apprenticeship starts in that quarter had they been left in.

  From 2016/17 onwards all data in the table is calculated using the month 5 freeze of the Lifelong Learning Wales Record (LLWR). This freeze is produced close to the end of the December after the academic year in question finishes. For example, the freeze containing the 2016/17 data was taken close to the end of December 2017.

  Prior to 2016/17 data in the table was calculated using the month 7 freeze of the Lifelong Learning Wales Record (LLWR). This freeze was produced close to the end of the February after the academic year in question finishes. For example, the freeze containing the 2015/16 data was taken close to the end of February 2017.

• Statistical quality:

  Statisticians within the Medr review the data and query any anomalies with the LLWR data collection team and, where relevant, with learning providers before tables are published. The LLWR data underlying this table are intended to be final, for non-funding purposes.

• Rounding applied:

  All figures in the table have been rounded to the closest multiple of 5. All non-zero values less than 5 have been suppressed and are denoted by [c].

• Related reports:
  • Sta/Medr/02/2026: Apprenticeships learning programmes started: August to October 2025 (provisional)

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• Organisation: Medr
• Contact email: statistics@medr.cymru