Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when the Building Services Engineering Technician apprenticeship scheme is due to commence; and if she will make a statement.

A response has been provided to the hon. Member for Liverpool Riverside on this matter on 23 November. The unique identification number was 113589: http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-11-16/113589/.

The Institute for Apprenticeships is independent of the department and determines its own processes. The Institute wrote to the hon. Member for Liverpool Riverside directly on 28 November responding to the question regarding the commencement of the Building Services Engineering Technician. A copy of that response has been placed in the Libraries of both Houses.