Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 2 July 2018 to Question 157841, how many of the 775 apprentices transferred from Carillion Training Services Limited who have been found new employment have been placed with public sector employers.

Apprentices are still paid by the official receiver if they continue to participate in learning and are actively seeking alternative employment with the support of the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB).

775 apprentices have successfully found new jobs with an employer who have agreed to continue supporting their apprenticeship to completion. The new employers are mainly small and medium-sized building contractors, which is consistent with the types of employer who recruit most of the apprentices in the construction sector. We do not have all of the new Individual Learner Records for the transferred Carillion Training Services apprentices reported by the new providers yet, but the data currently available from CITB has identified 15 apprentices are now employed by seven public sector employers (local authorities and housing associations) and two have joined the Army as apprentices.