Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many times the standard for Maritime Caterer Apprenticeship submitted to her Department by the Maritime Trailblazer Working Group has been rejected since her Department assumed responsibility for apprenticeships policy.

The Institute for Apprenticeships is an independent body with responsibility for the development and approval of apprenticeship standards. I have therefore asked the Institute to write to the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull East, Karl Turner, directly responding to the questions about the Maritime Caterer Apprenticeship. A copy of that response will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses when it is available.