Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprentices are employed in his Department.

There are currently 176 members of staff on an apprenticeship programme within the department.

Recently published data detailing the Civil Service performance against the first year of the public sector apprenticeship target can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-apprenticeship-data-2017-to-2018.