Question follow-through · 122946
Department for Transport: Apprentices
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many apprentices her Department recruited in 2025, compared to i) 2022 ii) 2023 and iii) 2024.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 23 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 31 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many apprentices her Department recruited in 2025, compared to i) 2022 ii) 2023 and iii) 2024.
26 Mar 2026
Target answer date
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31 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Department for Transport (central), excluding its executive agencies, recruited the following number of external apprentices:2025: 32024: 82023: Data cannot be provided. Our recruitment system (Oleeo VX) retains only two years of data in line with our...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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