Asked by: Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Highgate)
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what proportion of the staff employed by her Department are apprentices.
Answered by Julian Smith
The Government expects to train up hundreds of thousands more highly skilled apprentices during this Parliament and government departments all have a role to play in this.
Data regarding the number of apprentices in each Government Department is published yearly as part of routine Government transparency. The most recent report was published in September, covering the 2018-2019 financial year, and can be found on GOV.UK:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-apprenticeship-data-2018-to-2019
Asked by: Tulip Siddiq (Labour - Hampstead and Highgate)
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many and what proportion of people employed by his Department are from other EU countries.
Answered by Kris Hopkins
The Department does not hold information relating to EU nationals. From the data held at December 2016 on 96 staff, 45% have declared as British citizens, 48% have chosen not to declare their nationality and 7% have declared as other nationalities.