Department for Education: Apprentices

(asked on 1st May 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) female and (b) male apprentices are employed by his Department for Education on a part-time basis.


Answered by
Anne Milton Portrait
Anne Milton
This question was answered on 10th May 2018

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.

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