Department for Education written question – answered on 24 July 2020.
Robert Halfon
Chair, Education Committee, Chair, Education Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to reach the public sector apprenticeship target.
Gillian Keegan
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education
The department has successfully met its public sector target for the number of apprenticeship starts in each of the previous three years. The table below shows the target and actual number of starts, and the resulting percentage of the workforce that this represents.
Year | Target number of starts | Actual number of starts | Percentage of the workforce |
2017/18 | 108 | 116 | 2.30% |
2018/19 | 134 | 195 | 3.20% |
2019/20 | 155 | 188 | 2.80% |
Data taken from Department for Education Departmental Summary 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20.
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