Number of levy-supported apprenticeship starts by local authority district since the introduction of apprenticeship levy (May 2017 - April 2018 provisional) Local Authority District Levy-supported starts (May 2017 to April 2018) Adur 140 Allerdale 320 Amber Valley 390 Arun 340 Ashfield 500 Ashford 330 Aylesbury Vale 450 Babergh 200 Barking and Dagenham 530 Barnet 490 Barnsley 780 Barrow in Furness 490 Basildon 550 Basingstoke and Deane 470 Bassetlaw 340 Bath and North East Somerset 400 Bedford 430 Bexley 710 Birmingham 2,460 Blaby 320 Blackburn with Darwen 410 Blackpool 450 Bolsover 290 Bolton 730 Boston 190 Bournemouth 480 Bracknell Forest 330 Bradford 1,380 Braintree 370 Breckland 440 Brent 550 Brentwood 180 Brighton and Hove 510 Bristol City of 1,260 Broadland 390 Bromley 680 Bromsgrove 210 Broxbourne 260 Broxtowe 340 Burnley 240 Bury 580 Calderdale 590
Cambridge 250 Camden 350 Cannock Chase 350 Canterbury 250 Carlisle 390 Castle Point 240 Central Bedfordshire 900 Charnwood 460 Chelmsford 480 Cheltenham 300 Cherwell 350 Cheshire East 1,070 Cheshire West and Chester 980 Chesterfield 370 Chichester 210 Chiltern 140 Chorley 340 Christchurch 110 City of London 20 Colchester 470 Copeland 280 Corby 220 Cornwall (including Isles of Scilly) 1,630 Cotswold 150 County Durham 2,100 Coventry 1,060 Craven 110 Crawley 360 Croydon 840 Dacorum 310 Darlington 420 Dartford 320 Daventry 200 Derby 1,000 Derbyshire Dales 140 Doncaster 990 Dover 380 Dudley 930 Ealing 620 East Cambridgeshire 210 East Devon 820 East Dorset 160 East Hampshire 220 East Hertfordshire 370 East Lindsey 250 East Northamptonshire 250 East Riding of Yorkshire 1,880 East Staffordshire 440
Eastbourne 210 Eastleigh 360 Eden 130 Elmbridge 210 Enfield 650 Epping Forest 290 Epsom and Ewell 140 Erewash 410 Exeter 370 Fareham 1,030 Fenland 250 Forest Heath 180 Forest of Dean 210 Fylde 190 Gateshead 760 Gedling 370 Gloucester 510 Gosport 1,020 Gravesham 280 Great Yarmouth 310 Greenwich 660 Guildford 260 Hackney 460 Halton 430 Hambleton 190 Hammersmith and Fulham 320 Harborough 170 Haringey 460 Harlow 230 Harrogate 340 Harrow 400 Hart 210 Hartlepool 350 Hastings 200 Havant 360 Havering 710 Herefordshire County of 310 Hertsmere 200 High Peak 260 Hillingdon 750 Hinckley and Bosworth 360 Horsham 270 Hounslow 600 Huntingdonshire 420 Hyndburn 230 Ipswich 490 Isle of Wight 350 Islington 440
Kensington and Chelsea 120 Kettering 290 Kings Lynn and West Norfolk 380 Kingston upon Hull City of 940 Kingston upon Thames 260 Kirklees 1,010 Knowsley 490 Lambeth 600 Lancaster 370 Leeds 2,530 Leicester 790 Lewes 180 Lewisham 620 Lichfield 410 Lincoln 360 Liverpool 1,240 Luton 600 Maidstone 380 Maldon 130 Malvern Hills 130 Manchester 1,650 Mansfield 340 Medway 1,250 Melton 160 Mendip 270 Merton 360 Mid Devon 200 Mid Suffolk 280 Mid Sussex 280 Middlesbrough 580 Milton Keynes 730 Mole Valley 140 New Forest 400 Newark and Sherwood 330 Newcastle under Lyme 370 Newcastle upon Tyne 860 Newham 720 North Devon 210 North Dorset 680 North East Derbyshire 290 North East Lincolnshire 600 North Hertfordshire 300 North Kesteven 350 North Lincolnshire 720 North Norfolk 200 North Somerset 620 North Tyneside 840 North Warwickshire 210
North West Leicestershire 340 Northampton 670 Northumberland 1,110 Norwich 400 Nottingham 850 Nuneaton and Bedworth 470 Oadby and Wigston 170 Oldham 690 Oxford 270 Pendle 200 Peterborough 620 Plymouth 1,100 Poole 410 Portsmouth 690 Preston 470 Purbeck 920 Reading 470 Redbridge 540 Redcar and Cleveland 600 Redditch 260 Reigate and Banstead 280 Ribble Valley 170 Richmond upon Thames 250 Richmondshire 1,930 Rochdale 740 Rochford 240 Rossendale 190 Rother 120 Rotherham 750 Rugby 370 Runnymede 200 Rushcliffe 230 Rushmoor 280 Rutland 60 Ryedale 80 Salford 980 Sandwell 940 Scarborough 250 Sedgemoor 320 Sefton 790 Selby 230 Sevenoaks 200 Sheffield 1,380 Shepway 230 Shropshire 1,090 Slough 350 Solihull 630 South Bucks 140
South Cambridgeshire 300 South Derbyshire 350 South Gloucestershire 1,030 South Hams 180 South Holland 270 South Kesteven 480 South Lakeland 270 South Norfolk 400 South Northamptonshire 190 South Oxfordshire 280 South Ribble 370 South Somerset 450 South Staffordshire 350 South Tyneside 600 Southampton 730 Southend on Sea 380 Southwark 580 Spelthorne 270 St Edmundsbury 280 St. Albans District (B) 240 St. Helens 560 Stafford 400 Staffordshire Moorlands 270 Stevenage 360 Stockport 960 Stockton on Tees 750 Stoke on Trent 830 Stratford on Avon 280 Stroud 300 Suffolk Coastal 340 Sunderland 1,220 Surrey Heath 190 Sutton 460 Swale 380 Swindon 790 Tameside 860 Tamworth 210 Tandridge 150 Taunton Deane 390 Teignbridge 350 Telford and Wrekin 620 Tendring 320 Test Valley 400 Tewkesbury 260 Thanet 270 Three Rivers 190 Thurrock 580 Tonbridge and Malling 290
Torbay 380 Torridge 140 Tower Hamlets 650 Trafford 630 Tunbridge Wells 190 Uttlesford 160 Vale of White Horse 320 Wakefield 1,120 Walsall 810 Waltham Forest 570 Wandsworth 500 Warrington 800 Warwick 330 Watford 240 Waveney 330 Waverley 190 Wealden 270 Wellingborough 190 Welwyn Hatfield District (B) 270 West Berkshire 480 West Devon 130 West Dorset 180 West Lancashire 290 West Lindsey 240 West Oxfordshire 220 West Somerset 80 Westminster 370 Weymouth and Portland 210 Wigan 1,160 Wiltshire 2,860 Winchester 780 Windsor and Maidenhead 270 Wirral 1,020 Woking 210 Wokingham 360 Wolverhampton 780 Worcester 320 Worthing 270 Wychavon 260 Wycombe 290 Wyre 230 Wyre Forest 310 York 480 Other 2,620 Total Levy-supported starts 158,300 Total Apprenticeship Starts 338,400
Notes 1) Sum of local authority districts may not match the total levy-supported starts due to rounding. 2) Figures are rounded to the nearest 10, except totals that are rounded to the nearest 100. 3) Levy-supported starts are starts that have been supported through levy funds. 4) Local authority districts are based upon the learners home postcode. 5) 2017/18 data (August 2017 to April 2018) is provisional and is as reported in the Apprenticeships and Traineeships: July 2018 statistics publication. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/apprenticeships-and-traineeships-july-2018. 6) Finalised data for the 2017/18 academic year will be available in December 2018.