Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many full-time equivalent staff there were in the Skills Funding Agency in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14 and (e) 2014-15.
The table below outlines the total number of staff employed by full-time equivalence in the Skills Funding Agency:
2010-11 | 1459 |
2011-12 | 1580 |
2012-13 | 1200 |
2013-14 | 1142 |
2014-15 | 788 |
Staffing numbers have reduced as part of the Civil Service reform programme. Alongside this, the Skills Funding Agency has prioritised its resources to focus on 3 million apprenticeship starts. The latest Statistical First Release shows an upward trajectory of apprenticeship starts.