Latest statistics from the Department for Education show that in the first three months of the 2021/22 academic year 157,400 people aged under 24 started apprenticeships compared with 175,500 during the same period in 2018/19.
Between August and April 2019/20, during which time the UK entered its first national Covid-19 lockdown, 150,400 young people started apprenticeships.
In the first three quarters of the 2021/22 academic year, under-19s made up 23.7 per cent of apprenticeships starters while 19- to 24-year-olds made up for 30.8 per cent of all new apprentices.
Those aged 25 and over who started new apprenticeships accounted for 45.5 per cent of all new starters.
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