Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprenticeships have been created in the Government's Equalities Office in each region in each of the last five years; and how many participants in those apprenticeships subsequently secured a job within the Civil Service.
The table below shows numbers of apprenticeships created in the Department for Education in the last five years.
2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | |
London | 0 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 30 |
North Wesr (Manchester/Runcorn) | 0 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 4 |
North East (Darlington/Gateshead) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
West Midlands (Coventry | 0 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 12 |
East Midlands (Nottingham) | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Yorkshire and the Humber (Sheffield/Leeds) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 |
South West (Bristol/Plymouth) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
South East (Reading) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Total number of apprenticeships | 0 | 32 | 15 | 34 | 64 |
The Department currently does not hold information about the numbers of participants of these apprenticeships that subsequently secured a job in the Civil Service.
The Government Equalities Office (GEO) has recruited 1 apprentice in the last 5 years. The apprentice joined GEO in 2015 and left in 2016. The apprentice was based in London and did go on to secure a job in the Civil Service.