Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of the staff employed by his Department are apprentices.
This information about apprentices is not held in the format requested. The number of apprentice starts for each year is as follows:
Year | Number of apprentice starts | Workforce size |
2012/2013 | 32 | 3900 |
2013/2014 | 15 | 3480 |
2014/2015 | 34 | 3480 |
2015/2016 | 64 | 3550 |
2016/2017 | 50 | 5330 |
2017/2018 * | 107 | 5960 (Latest - January 2018) |
* Further apprentice starts may take place in 2017-2018