Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has to ensure that apprentices enrolled and training on a Standard Appenticeship Course, and working towards their end-date have an end-point assessment organisation in place.

All new apprenticeship standards will have an end point assessment. Apprentices cannot start until the relevant assessment plan has been approved and published. Apprentices will know what their end point assessment will involve before they start on a standard.

Over 99 per cent of apprentices on programmes have an end point assessment organisation registered against the standard. However, there are a small number of standards with starts which have not yet confirmed the end point assessment organisation. We are tracking these starts so that we can confirm an end point assessment organisation for these standards at the earliest opportunity.

The number of end point assessment organisations on the register and coverage of standards is increasing each month; and we are confident that we will have assessment organisations in place for all apprentices taking their end point assessment.