Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 7 September 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many apprentices were employed by (a) his Department and (b) its principal contractors in each of the last five years.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has had the following numbers of apprenticeship starts:
2007/08: No data available
2008/09: 22
2009/10: 34
2010/11: 28
2011/12: 16
2012/13: 20 (anticipated)
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has a large network of partner organisations of different types: executive, advisory and tribunal non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs), agencies, public corporations, and non-ministerial departments, many of whom employ apprentices themselves. Some 80% of the Department's resources pass through these organisations, so they are vital to delivering our objectives.
The Department does not hold information on the number of apprenticeships created directly through principal contractors.
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