Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many apprenticeships have been created in his Department 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 Transport Infrastructure Skills Strategy (January 2016) sets out our ambition to create 30,000 apprenticeships in the roads and rail sectors by 2020, in support of this government’s unprecedented investment in transport infrastructure. This target includes the Department for Transport, its Agencies and infrastructure client bodies – Crossrail, Transport for London, Highways England, Network Rail and HS2 Ltd, as well as each of their supply chains.

Regarding apprenticeships just within the Department for Transport – comprising the central Department and the four Executive Agencies – data is not readily available in the format requested.