Met Office: Apprentices
(asked on 8th April 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if the Meteorological Office has offered apprenticeships in each year since 2010.
Answered by
Feryal Clark
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
This question was answered on 28th April 2025
The Civil Service is committed to using apprenticeships to break down barriers to opportunity, support skills development and deliver more effective public services.
The Met Office has offered apprenticeships at Level 2 through to Level 7 across a breadth of professions and has a continued commitment to do so.
The department has made use of apprentices in its workforce since 2016 and recruitment data, where available, has been provided below:
| Year | Number of apprentice starts |
| 2016 | 2 |
| 2017 | 5 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2019 | 8 |
| 2020 | 4 |
| 2021 | 18 |
| 2022 | 33 |
| 2023 | 32 |
| 2024 | 24 |
| 2025 | 3 (to date – 2025 Autumn cohort recruitment underway) |