Prime Minister: Apprentices
(asked on 20th February 2019) - View Source
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what proportion of staff employed by in No. 10 Downing Street are apprentices.
This question was answered on 26th February 2019
The Cabinet Office currently employs 90 apprentices who are actively completing an apprenticeship, this equates to 1.31% of our workforce.
As set out in the Civil Service apprenticeship strategy, the Civil Service has pledged to achieve 30,000 apprenticeship starts in England by 2020, annually delivering 2.3% of our workforce in England as apprenticeship starts.
Work is underway to produce detailed plans, at business unit level, to identify how they will meet their target in 2019/20