Question follow-through · 122948

Ministry of Defence: Apprentices

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many apprentices his Department recruited in each year since 2022.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body: Ministry of Defence
Tabled: 23 Mar 2026
Target answer date: 26 Mar 2026
Answer: 26 Mar 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Votes on this topic

Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline

23 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many apprentices his Department recruited in each year since 2022.
26 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Mar 2026
Answer published
The table below includes both existing Ministry of Defence (MOD) Civil Servants who commenced an apprenticeship, and those Civil Servants recruited to the MOD as apprentices. It does not include Armed Forces apprenticeships. YearApprentices202270020238022...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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