Chuka Umunna – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chuka Umunna on 2014-04-03.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many apprentices aged (a) 16 to 18, (b) 19 to 24 and (c) 25 years or over are employed at each of his Department’s executive agencies, non-departmental public bodies and associated bodies and agencies.
Matthew Hancock
I have asked chief executives of the Executive agencies to respond directly to the Hon Member.
Until 2013, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills did not keep a record of the age of internal apprentices. The table shows the age of both externally recruited apprentices since 2010 and ages of those apprentices embarking on the Departments’ internal apprenticeship programme in 2013. The 2013 figure refers to the ages of those on the Departments’ internal programme. There are no externally recruited apprentices in the 25 years or over category.
|
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
|
|
16 to 18 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
19 to 24 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
11 |
|
25 years or over |
0 |
0 |
0 |
16 |
The Department for Business Innovation and Skills currently has 53 apprentices. We have had 4 successful completions this year.
16 of these 53 apprentices are under the age of 21 with a further 6 apprentices under 21 expected to join the Department later in the year.
