Question follow-through · 51298
Department for Business and Trade: Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to increase the number of apprenticeship starts in his Department.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 12 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 May 2025
- Answer
- 20 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to increase the number of apprenticeship starts in his Department.
14 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 May 2025
Answer published
We remain committed to supporting the use of apprenticeships across all government departments to break down barriers to opportunity. This includes supporting the Government's commitment to 2,000 digital apprenticeships through its TechTrack scheme by 203...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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