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date	17/09/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress his Department is making on meeting the 2.3 per cent public sector apprenticeship target; and when his Department will meet that target.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	91620
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2020 answer text <p>The department is maintaining a strong performance on its internal apprenticeship programme, having met the 2.3 per cent public sector target for the past 3 years. We are confident that we will meet this target again in 2020/21 by the end of the financial year.</p><p>We have made plans for the department to support the government’s Plan for Jobs through 4 external apprentice recruitment campaigns that will close on 30 September. We are piloting a new approach to external recruitment for junior roles from 1 September to 31 December – all of these vacancies will be advertised as apprenticeships.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 24/09/2020 15:36:19 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

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registered interest
date	15/07/2020
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to reach the public sector apprenticeship target.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	74513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2020 answer text <p>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.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Target number of starts</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Actual number of starts</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Percentage of the workforce</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>108</p></td><td><p>116</p></td><td><p>2.30%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>134</p></td><td><p>195</p></td><td><p>3.20%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>155</p></td><td><p>188</p></td><td><p>2.80%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Data taken from Department for Education Departmental Summary 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20.</p> answering member constituency Chichester answering member printed Gillian Keegan question first answered 24/07/2020 13:25:38 answering member 4680 label Biography information for Gillian Keegan
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon

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registered interest
date	14/02/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Department for Education: Apprentices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprentices are employed in his Department.
tabling member constituency	Harlow
tabling member printed	Robert Halfon
uin	221748
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/02/2019 answer text <p>As of 31 January 2019, the Department for Education employed 209 apprentices.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 22/02/2019 10:09:32 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon