Question follow-through · 51804
Treasury: Apprentices
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to increase the number of apprenticeship starts in her Department.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 13 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 May 2025
- Answer
- 19 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to increase the number of apprenticeship starts in her Department.
15 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 May 2025
Answer published
As of January 2025, 6.9% of staff in the department are currently on an apprenticeship, which is above our target of 5%. To maintain and build on this, we continue to take the following steps: All Administrative Officer (AO) and Executive Officer (EO) rec...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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