Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) male and (b) female apprentices are employed by his Department; and how many people have started an apprenticeship within his Department in each year since 2010.
The data on apprenticeship starts is not available in the format requested. The following number of people have started an apprenticeship in the department each year since 2012:
Year | Number of apprentice starts |
2012/2013 | 32 |
2013/2014 | 15 |
2014/2015 | 34 |
2015/2016 | 64 |
2016/2017 | 50 |
2017/2018 | 116 |
The following number of male and female apprentices are currently employed by the department. Mean and median salaries for currently employed male and female apprentices are also included in the attached table.
The number of part and full time male and female apprentices currently employed by the department is within the attached table.
We do not currently hold data on the outcome of apprenticeships for department employees. We are putting in place a mechanism to collect this data.