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Written Question
NHS: Apprentices
Monday 4th November 2024

Asked by: Andrew Pakes (Labour (Co-op) - Peterborough)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS trusts use apprenticeship funding to develop their clinical workforce.

Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

Provisional data, published by the Department for Education and covering all apprenticeships, indicates that there were 18,400 NHS apprenticeship starts from 191 NHS employers for the 2023/24 financial year.

'Public sector apprenticeships - aggregate return values by sub-sector' from 'Apprenticeships', Permanent data table - Explore education statistics - GOV.UK

With regards to the number of clinical apprenticeships within NHS Trusts, data is not validated.