Question follow-through · 13067
Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure people without Maths and English GCSEs can access appropriate apprenticeship schemes.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 6 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 15 Nov 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
6 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure people without Maths and English GCSEs can access appropriate apprenticeship schemes.
11 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Nov 2024
Answer published
The department does not have entry requirements for apprenticeships, but we understand that employers may wish to set their own as apprentices are employees.The department does have specific English and mathematics exit requirements which apprentices must...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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