Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, how many apprenticeships have been created in his Department in each region in each of the last five years; and how many participants in those apprenticeships subsequently secured a job within the Civil Service.

As a new Department, DExEU is not in a position to report on the use of apprenticeships over the last 5 years. Since our creation we have recruited a number of apprentices into the Department and see them as an important means of hiring into the Department.