Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 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.

There are currently (a) 15 apprentices employed by the Home Department and (b) 0 in the Department’s Executive Non-Departmental Public Bodies ( formerly Executive Agencies and associated bodies) (as at 31 January 2015). It is not possible to provide a breakdown of the ages of the apprentices employed as it would breach the Department’s obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998 not to disclose, to a third party, personal information about another person.

The Department does not hold a full employment history for all of our staff so we are not able to identify whether any apprentices have previously been employed by another Government Department.