Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of trends in the number of newly qualified forklift operators.
The Government does not record the numbers of newly qualified forklift operators.
The training for materials handling equipment, including forklift trucks, is an option within the Supply Chain Warehouse Operative apprenticeship but is not required to complete the apprenticeship. There have been 5,093 Supply Chain Warehouse Operative apprenticeship starts in the last five years.