Will the Minister confirm the gender, age, ethnicity and disability breakdown of learners studying vocational courses in green skills-related areas specified in the Welsh Government’s Programme’s Directory 2021/22, including agriculture, horticulture and animal care; engineering and manufacturing technologies; and construction, planning and the built environment?
Statistics on post-16 education for the 2021/22 academic year are yet to be published. Statistics for the 2020/21 academic year are provisionally scheduled to be published in February 2022 and have been pre-announced in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics. Detailed data for previous academic years, including breakdowns by learner characteristics, is available on StatsWales. The published data does not contain breakdowns by learning programme subject for vocational programmes, nor a specific breakdown for learners studying vocational courses in green skills-related areas.