Department for Transport: Apprentices

(asked on 23rd March 2026) - View Source
Questioner
John Cooper Portrait
John Cooper
(Conservative - Dumfries and Galloway)

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many apprentices her Department recruited in 2025, compared to i) 2022 ii) 2023 and iii) 2024.

Answered by
Simon Lightwood Portrait
Simon Lightwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 31st March 2026

The Department for Transport (central), excluding its executive agencies, recruited the following number of external apprentices:

  • 2025: 3
  • 2024: 8
  • 2023: Data cannot be provided. Our recruitment system (Oleeo VX) retains only two years of data in line with our recruitment retention policy; therefore, we cannot supply accurate figures for 2023.
  • 2022: Data cannot be provided for the same reason.

The figures reflect candidates at the ‘ready to hire’ stage, having completed pre‑employment checks and accepted formal offers via the Civil Service recruitment portal.


Source of data: These figures are sourced directly from the Department for Transport’s recruitment platform, Oleeo VX, which feeds applicant information into the Civil Service Jobs system.

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