Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the process is for appointing the advisory panel of apprentices for the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education; and how she plans to ensure that that panel's membership is drawn from different occupations, backgrounds and areas of the country.

The first apprentice panel will be in place before the Institute for Apprenticeships goes live in April 2017. We are considering options for recruitment and will put in place a process to ensure that membership is diverse and drawn from different occupations, backgrounds and areas of the country.