Mentions:
1: Andrew Jones (Con - Harrogate and Knaresborough) What steps her Department is taking to help increase the number of occupations for which apprenticeships - Speech Link
2: Peter Aldous (Con - Waveney) What steps her Department is taking to help increase the number of occupations for which apprenticeships - Speech Link
3: Gillian Keegan (Con - Chichester) We are always happy to work with any industry that sees an opportunity for more apprentices to be trained - Speech Link
4: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) Wakley, who is disabled and travels to her college on the bus, but her blue badge does not allow free transport - Speech Link
5: Robert Halfon (Con - Harlow) We have also launched a mentoring pilot for disabled apprentices. - Speech Link
Found: items and costs relating to a further education course, such as books, specialist clothing, transport
Feb. 06 2024
Source Page: My experience as a Graduate Solicitor ApprenticeFound: I’m proud to be one of 21 people who joined GLD’s first cohort of Graduate Solicitor Apprentices in September
Mentions:
1: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) I wrote to the Department for Education to raise my concerns about this issue and was disappointed with - Speech Link
2: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) Friend the Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon), who used to wear a ladder badge when he was in the Department - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) She has experience of the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department for Environment, Food and - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Hyslop, Fiona (SNP - Linlithgow) On 16 January, my officials at Transport Scotland met the South East of Scotland Transport Partnership—SEStran—along - Speech Link
2: Whittle, Brian (Con - South Scotland) sluggish growth or a lack of growth is a problem, because the company struggles to recruit the appropriate apprentices - Speech Link
3: Hyslop, Fiona (SNP - Linlithgow) As I set out in my original answer, the matter is reserved to the UK Government, and the Department for - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) will fall to the Department for Work and Pensions. - Speech Link
2: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) I will ensure that the Secretary of State for Transport has heard what my hon. - Speech Link
3: Liam Byrne (Lab - Birmingham, Hodge Hill) No other Department has missed the deadline; only the Department for Business and Trade. - Speech Link
4: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) Friend find Government time for a debate on apprentices in public services, so that we can congratulate - Speech Link
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many apprenticeships have been (a) offered, (b) completed and (c) started but not completed with (i) London North Eastern Railway, (ii) Transpennine Express, (iii) Northern Rail and (iv) Southeastern Railway since they have been run by the operator of last resort.
Answered by Huw Merriman - Minister of State (Department for Transport)
The Department is committed to ensuring that the transport workforce better reflects our diverse society. As part of the ongoing work with the Transport Employment and Skills Taskforce, the Department has been working with a range of stakeholders leading on the skills and employment agenda, which includes Apprenticeships. The Department has also included requirements for Passenger Services rail operators including OLR Operators to recruit Apprentices.
The Train Operators have confirmed as follows:
OLR Operator | Offered | Started but Ongoing | Completed |
Northern 2020 | 1265 | 762 | 377 |
South Eastern 2021 | 682 | 392 (The started but not completed figure includes individuals who started an apprenticeship but then left SET before completion, as well as those that are still working to complete their apprenticeship.) | 258 |
TransPennine Trains 2023 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
London North Eastern Railway 2018 | See below | ||
LNER’s apprenticeship data is based on the Apprenticeship Service Status:
All | 312 |
Waiting to start | 0 |
Live | 182 |
Paused | 3 |
Stopped | 43 |
Completed | 84 |
Jun. 24 2009
Source Page: The benefits of completing an apprenticeship. Incl. appendices. 136 p.Found: McIntosh of the Economics Department of Sheffield University on behalf of the DfES) 6 has shown that
Mar. 27 2024
Source Page: The National Minimum Wage Beyond 2024Found: Between 2005 and 2013, coverage excluding apprentices is imputed using ASHE and Department for
Mentions:
1: Lord Watson of Wyre Forest (Lab - Life peer) It would negate the need for a Department for Levelling Up because it would promote economic activity - Speech Link
2: Baroness Donaghy (Lab - Life peer) When the noble Lord, Lord Henley, was Minister at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial - Speech Link
3: Lord Mountevans (XB - Excepted Hereditary) example financial and professional services and transport. - Speech Link
4: Lord Aberdare (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Meanwhile, small employers are reluctant to take on apprentices because of the cost and bureaucratic - Speech Link