Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she and Ministers in her Department have had with Ministers in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills on the proposed reform of apprenticeships; what effect those discussions will have on her Department's projects and the work of their supply chain; and whether officials in her Department sit on programme boards managing the reform.

Home Office Ministers and officials have meetings with a wide variety of international partners, as well as organisations and individuals in the public
and private sectors, as part of the process of policy development and delivery.

Details of Ministerial meetings with external organisations and individuals are passed to the Cabinet Office on a quarterly basis and are subsequently
published on the Cabinet Office website which is available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministers-meetings-with-external-organisations-jul-sep-2013

The Home Office does not currently have officials sitting on programme boards managing the reform of apprenticeships.