Question follow-through · 51795
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero: Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to increase the number of apprenticeship starts in his Department.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 13 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 May 2025
- Answer
- 21 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what steps he is taking to increase the number of apprenticeship starts in his Department.
15 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 May 2025
Answer published
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero will shortly launch a Talent Strategy in which apprenticeships play a central role in building the delivery capability DESNZ needs to be a mission-focused department. The department has a well-established ap...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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