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	registered interest
	date	23/02/2015
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many apprentices employed by (a) his Department and (b) its executive agencies and associated bodies are aged (i) 16 to 18, (ii) 19 to 24 and (iii) 25 years or older; and how many of those apprentices employed in each form of body and of each age group were previously employed by the Government.
	tabling member constituency	Streatham
	tabling member printed	Mr Chuka Umunna
	uin	225064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is proud to be recognised as the single largest deliverer of apprenticeships in the UK with over 18,000 apprenticeships undertaken each year across the Armed Forces.</p><p>Information, on apprenticeships in the military, in the form requested is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.</p><p>For civilians the following table provides the requested breakdown by age as at 1 January 2015, excluding approximately 30 Civil Service Fast Track apprentices for whom current age data is not available:</p><table><tbody><tr><td> </td><td><p>16-18</p><p> </p></td><td><p>19-24</p><p> </p></td><td><p>25 or older</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>MOD Main (including Defence Equipment &amp; Support (DE&amp;S))</p><p> </p></td><td><p>50</p><p> </p></td><td><p>100</p><p> </p></td><td><p>40</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Defence Support Group</p><p> </p></td><td><p>10</p><p> </p></td><td><p>30</p><p> </p></td><td><p>20</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Defence Science &amp; Technology Laboratory (DSTL)</p><p> </p></td><td><p>~</p><p> </p></td><td><p>10</p><p> </p></td><td><p>~</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p><p> </p></td><td><p>60</p><p> </p></td><td><p>140</p><p> </p></td><td><p>60</p><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes: ~ denotes five or fewer.</p><p>Data has been individually rounded to the nearest 10, and may not sum precisely to the overall total.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 02/03/2015 17:56:08 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	4128 label Biography information for Chuka Umunna

65426

	registered interest
	date	02/07/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many apprentices have been employed by contractors and sub-contractors to his Department in each year since 2010-11; and what proportion such apprentices make up of the workforce of those contractors and sub-contractors.
	tabling member constituency	Harlow
	tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
	uin	203860
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) does not hold information about apprentices employed by contractors. We do not contract for individual staff but for a requirement. The successful contractor is free to deliver that requirement in the most appropriate way, including through the employment of apprentices, but the MOD does not record that detail.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 08/07/2014 15:43:31 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

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	registered interest
	date	04/09/2014
	answering body	Ministry of Defence
	answering dept id	11
	answering dept short name	Defence
	answering dept sort name	Defence
	hansard heading	Apprentices
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he and Ministers in his Department have had with Ministers in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills on the proposed reform of apprenticeships; what effect those discussions will have on his Department's projects and the work of their supply chain; and whether officials in his Department sit on programme boards managing the reform.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	208209
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2014 answer text <p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is pleased to be recognised as the single largest deliverer of apprenticeships in the UK. Apprenticeships are firmly embedded across Armed Forces initial training, with, for example, 95% of Army recruits enrolling in an apprenticeship each year, most of whom complete within two years. The MOD is also the largest deliverer of civilian apprenticeships across Government Departments.</p><p>The Government’s apprenticeship reform programme is aimed at ensuring apprenticeships in England become more rigorous and more responsive to the needs of employers. MOD officials do not sit on the programme boards, and this programme has not been the subject of Ministerial discussions between MOD and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). However, I can confirm that senior MOD officials are fully engaged with their BIS counterparts as we look to influence the implementation of this reform and to develop MOD policy in support of it.</p><p>It is in the MOD’s interests to ensure its supply chain contains personnel with the skills required to support defence interests. To that end the MOD seeks to reflect wider supply chain training requirements through bodies such as the Defence Growth Partnership (DGP).</p><p>MOD officials are engaged with BIS on the development of new Trailblazer apprenticeships to meet MOD and wider defence industry needs. In the context of the Aerospace Trailblazer Group the RAF has collaborated with major employers such as BAE and Airbus to produce apprenticeship standards for the manufacture of aircraft. Another example is the Supply Chain and Logistics Operations Trailblazer. This is divided into four main areas; Warehouse Operations, Specialist Driving, Specialist Operative and Port Operations. The MOD is represented on the committees responsible for the development of standards for each of these main areas.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 11/09/2014 15:09:24 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis