Apprentices
(asked on 23rd February 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many apprentices employed by (a) her 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.
A breakdown by age group of the total number of apprentices employed by Defra and its Executive Agencies and Executive non-departmental public bodies is set out in the table below:
| (a) | (b1) | (b2) |
| No. of apprentices (Of which, number who have been employed previously by the Government) | No. of apprentices (Of which, number who have been employed previously by the Government) | No. of apprentices (Of which, number who have been employed previously by the Government) |
(i) 16-19 years | 2 (0) | 6 (0) | 0 (0) |
(ii) 19-24 years | 2 (0) | 12 (0) | 12 (6 *) |
(iii) 25 years or older | 0 (0) | 1 (0) | 40 (34 *) |
TOTAL | 4 (0) | 19 (0) | 52 (40 *) |
* these are existing employees who have taken up an apprenticeship