Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of the staff employed by his Department are apprentices.

The Department (including Central Department and Executive Agencies) currently employs 230 apprentices which equates to 1.58% of the workforce.

This is based on apprenticeship data and Departmental headcount at end of February 2018. These figures are subject to constant change due to workforce movement and apprenticeship completion.

The Department has a number of apprenticeship starts in progress which will increase the numbers of apprentices once they have been signed up by learning providers, but they are not yet registered as apprentices.