Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many new apprenticeships have been created in the transport sector in each of the last five years.

The Department for Education have published apprenticeship starts by subject area over the required time period.

The Department for Transport began reporting in 2016 through the Strategic Transport Apprenticeship Taskforce (STAT). The STAT “One year on” report sets out apprentice starts in: DfT; Roads and Rail client bodies; and the supply chain, generated through procurement contracting. In 2016-17, 2,000 apprenticeships were delivered in roads and rail. A report covering 2017 to 2018 is due to be published this summer. The Transport Infrastructure Skills strategy published in 2016 committed to creating 30,000 apprenticeships by 2020.