Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

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

At 31 January 2021, 1.4 per cent of the total staff, or 34 of 2434, employed within the Department were employed as apprentices. The Civil Service continues to publish data on its apprenticeship targets; the data for which can be found below for 2018/19 and 2019/20.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-apprenticeship-data-2018-to-2019
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-apprenticeship-data-2019-to-2020