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Armed Forces: Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to improve the (a) quality and (b) quantity of apprenticeships within the (i) Armed Forces and (ii) associated supply chains.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Tabled
4 Mar 2025
Target answer date
6 Mar 2025
Answer
10 Mar 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to improve the (a) quality and (b) quantity of apprenticeships within the (i) Armed Forces and (ii) associated supply chains.

  2. 6 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 10 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The Armed Forces is the largest single deliverer of apprenticeships in the UK, with over 23,000 personnel employed on a nationally recognised apprenticeship programmes at any one time and over 95 per cent of our non-commissioned military recruits offered ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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