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date	30/11/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing a national pay-scale for apprentices across the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	122788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2020 answer text <p>The Agenda for Change multi-year pay and contract reform deal 2018/19 to 2020/21 included a commitment for the NHS Staff Council to negotiate a new provision on pay for apprentices within the National Health Service terms and conditions of service.</p><p>Employers and trade unions were unable to reach a consensus on pay following lengthy negotiations but did agree on other areas including on job descriptions and person specifications for apprentices and on treatment of internal applicants to apprenticeship roles.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 08/12/2020 14:25:54 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1217071

registered interest
date	23/06/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of backfilling costs in the NHS on the NHS' ability to provide affordable apprenticeships programmes for (a) nursing and (b) other careers in healthcare.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	63383
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2020 answer text <p>The Department for Education operate the apprenticeship levy to support employers across all sectors to undertake training as apprentices. Apprenticeships funding can be used to cover the eligible costs of training and assessment for the apprentice, but it currently does not allow costs of backfill to be met – this falls to National Health Service employers employing apprentices.</p><p>We recognise that the nursing apprenticeship requires a high percentage of apprentice time spent in off the job training. Apprenticeships are real jobs with training and employers cover employment costs as they would with any employee, including wages while training.</p><p>Apprenticeships continue to play a vital role in delivering the high-quality skills employers need and that will support our economic recovery post COVID-19.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 02/07/2020 11:06:57 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

1139237

registered interest
date	16/07/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many apprenticeship starts in England were funded by the NHS in (a) 2017-18 and (b) 2018-19 at each apprenticeship level.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	277722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The Department does not centrally collect the information requested.</p><p>Public sector organisations in scope to meet the public sector apprentice target provide data annually to the Department for Education on numbers of apprentice starts. Data provided by the Department for Education show the National Health Service organisations in scope had 13,800 apprentice starts in 2017/18.</p><p>Published statistics which cover public sector apprenticeships in England in the first year of the target, 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018 are available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/public-sector-apprenticeships-in-england-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/public-sector-apprenticeships-in-england-2017-to-2018</a></p><p>Data is not available on 2018/19 starts until later this year.</p><p>Any NHS organisations not in scope for the apprenticeship target will not be included in the return, though they may have apprentices training within their organisation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 22/07/2019 15:36:42 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell