Hot off the press

I did promise in my ‘Gove Shake Up’ blog to substantiate my claim that our industry is in nose-dive.

Hot off the press from the DSA (literally end of August) are some stats:

 http://www.dft.gov.uk/statistics/tables/ins0101

You always have to take care with stats but I think you’ll agree there is a ‘theme’ to their message.

If the April – June 2012 trend continues as it currently shows, then PDI applications into the DSA will be about 13% down in 2012 compared to 2011.  The pink Trainee Licence will be 30% down.  New ADI’s registering with them will be 34% down.

Take a look at this FOI request back in Aug 2009: http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/adi_related_statistic

and it puts things in perspective.  In Sept 2009 there were 45,371 ADI’s on the books compared to 46,313 in June 2012, despite that being an increase, it does seem that the number is now on a downward trend.  But look at the number of new ADI’s registering over the last few years:

2004 5056

2005 5200

2006 6177

2007 5714

2008 4659

And 2011 3339      

The number for the last 6 months that the DSA have figures on (from Jan12 – Jun12) shows 1246!  So it seems the number of ADI’s registering is currently in freefall.

You can see by looking at this:  http://www.dft.gov.uk/statistics/tables/drt0721/ 

that the number of attempts at Part 3 have dramatically fallen.  In 2008/9 there were 13,427 attempts, it’s looking like half that amount in 2012 at around 6808.

All of this is of interest to me but I will bung up some stats of what’s going on in Peterborough too, just to put my region in context with the national picture.