Department for Education: Apprentices
(asked on 15th July 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to reach the public sector apprenticeship target.
This question was answered on 24th July 2020
The department has successfully met its public sector target for the number of apprenticeship starts in each of the previous three years. The table below shows the target and actual number of starts, and the resulting percentage of the workforce that this represents.
Year | Target number of starts | Actual number of starts | Percentage of the workforce |
2017/18 | 108 | 116 | 2.30% |
2018/19 | 134 | 195 | 3.20% |
2019/20 | 155 | 188 | 2.80% |
Data taken from Department for Education Departmental Summary 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20.