Question follow-through · 12204
Department for Education: Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprentices there were in her Department in each of the last five years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 31 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 8 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
31 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprentices there were in her Department in each of the last five years.
4 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Nov 2024
Answer published
The table below is a breakdown of apprentices in the department for the last five financial years:DateNumber of Apprentices31 March 202032431 March 202146831 March 202245131 March 202354031 March 2024515
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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