Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many civil service apprentices her Department has appointed since the civil service apprenticeship scheme was created.

The civil service fast-track apprenticeship scheme was launched in September 2013.

The Department for Education has appointed apprentices from the scheme every year.

It has also recruited other apprentices outside of the central scheme. The number of

apprentices recruited each year is in the following table:

A further 35 apprentices from the central scheme and 13 other apprentices have been offered apprenticeships at the Department and are expected to start in early 2017.