Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many apprentices employed by (a) his Department and (b) its executive agencies and associated bodies are aged (i) 16 to 18, (ii) 19 to 24 and (iii) 25 years or older; and how many of those apprentices employed in each form of body and of each age group were previously employed by the Government.

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is proud to be recognised as the single largest deliverer of apprenticeships in the UK with over 18,000 apprenticeships undertaken each year across the Armed Forces.

Information, on apprenticeships in the military, in the form requested is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

For civilians the following table provides the requested breakdown by age as at 1 January 2015, excluding approximately 30 Civil Service Fast Track apprentices for whom current age data is not available:

Notes: ~ denotes five or fewer.

Data has been individually rounded to the nearest 10, and may not sum precisely to the overall total.