Student Awards Agency Scotland - Graduate Apprenticeship statistics: FOI release

Information requested

Please provide a breakdown of the number of students and the total value of tuition fees paid for individuals undertaking Graduate Apprenticeships (GAs) while employed by the companies listed below.

Please provide this data for the academic years 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, and 2025/26 (to date).

For each company, please specify:
The number of students receiving SAAS tuition fee support.
The total value of tuition fee payments made by SAAS.
The GA Framework for these students (e.g., Engineering: Design & Manufacture, IT: Software Development, or Business Management).

Companies List:

• Thales UK Ltd
• Raytheon Systems Ltd
• Collins Aerospace Limited (including Rockwell Collins UK Limited)
• GE Caledonian Limited
• Chemring Energetics UK Ltd
• BAE Systems (including BAE Systems plc, BAE Systems Surface Ships Ltd and BAE Systems Marine Ltd)
• Leonardo UK Ltd (formerly Leonardo MW Ltd)
• Babcock Marine (including Babcock Marine (Rosyth) Ltd and Rosyth Royal Dockyard Limited)
• Spirit AeroSystems (Europe) Limited (including Prestwick Aerosystems and Spirit Defense)
• Castle Precision Engineering (Glasgow) Limited
• Walker Precision Engineering Limited
• Martin Precision Ltd
• Woodward International, Inc. (including Woodward Aircraft Engine Systems Prestwick)

If any of the above entities are not found exactly as written, please search for records containing the primary keywords: Leonardo, BAE, Babcock, Raytheon, Thales, Chemring, or Spirit.

Response

Whilst our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS) does not hold the data broken down in the categories requested.

Therefore, this is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Student Awards Agency Scotland does not have the information you have requested.

However, we can provide the number of students and the total value of tuition fees, see the table below, paid for individuals undertaking Graduate Apprenticeships (GAs) for the years 2022/2023 to 2025/2026 (to date).

Graduate Apprenticeship Students - Tuition Fees 22-23 to 25-26

Year	No. of students	Amount (£ million)
2022/2023	1,777	3.23
2023/2024	2,515	4.57
2024/2025	3,293	5.99
2025/2026 (up to date)	3,554*	N/A*

*Please note the information regarding the number of students and the amount of tuition fees paid for 2025/26 has not been finalised. Whilst we have provided the number of Graduate Apprenticeship applications received to date, receipt of an application does not guarantee an award of tuition fees and as bsuch the amount of tuition fees paid and supported students is not known.

Therefore, this is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Student Awards Agency Scotland does not have the information you have requested.

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