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<p>The House launched the first apprenticeship scheme in 2012. Since then 10 apprentices
have been employed per year. We have extended this to 12 apprentices for 2019.</p><p>Apprentices
are asked to submit diversity data. This does not include if they consider themselves
to be from a disadvantaged background. Therefore, the House does not hold this information.
We work closely with both our providers and the House of Commons recruitment team
to ensure vacancies are published to as broad an audience as possible.</p><p>As it
would be possible to identify the ethnicity of some of the apprentices – the intake
comprising too few individuals to ensure confidentiality – we are unable to answer
the question as to what proportion of apprentices currently employed by the House
of Commons are from minority ethnic backgrounds.</p>
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