Asked by: Baroness Nye (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what consideration they have given to continuing alignment between UK and EU policy on seasonal time changes, after the European Parliament voted to end them from October 2021.
Answered by Lord Henley
The Government does not believe there is any case for changing the current arrangements. I am working with EU Member States to convince them and the European Commission of our position.
We believe the current system works for citizens in the UK and there is no evidence that justifies the abolition of daylight saving time, which currently already ensures harmonisation of time in the EU.
Asked by: Baroness Nye (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to publish the completion rates for apprentices across all apprenticeship frameworks and standards, disaggregated by gender, in the light of the recent report by the Young Women's Trust suggesting that female apprentices in male dominated sectors such as engineering, IT and construction are less likely to complete their apprenticeship.
Answered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe - Shadow Minister (Treasury)
Apprenticeship achievement rates disaggregated by framework and gender are published on the GOV.UK website by the Skills Funding Agency in the National Achievement Rate Tables (formerly National Success Rate Tables).
The dataset is too large to attach to this response but is available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/sfa-national-achievement-rates-tables-2014-to-2015
However, table 1 shows overall achievement rates by gender in 2014/15.
Table 1: Apprenticeship Overall Achievement Rates by Gender, 2014/15 | |||
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| Overall Cohort | Overall Achievement Rate % |
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Female | 192,310 | 71.7 |
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Male | 170,950 | 71.7 |
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