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<p>The department currently employs 209 apprentices. This can be broken down into
the following groups in the attached table, which also shows the proportion against
the total number of employees.</p><p>Regarding the proportion of apprentices employed
at the Institute for Apprenticeships, this is a matter for the Institute for Apprenticeships
and Technical Education. I have asked the Chief Executive, Sir Gerry Berragan, to
write to the hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne and a copy of his reply will be placed
in the Libraries of both Houses.</p><p>Within the Education and Skills Funding Agency,
5 employees working on apprenticeships strategy, policy and delivery are apprentices,
which represents 1.6% of the total of 317 employees.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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