{"value":{"id":855658,"askingMemberId":4316,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2018-03-05T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2018-03-08T00:00:00","uin":"130965","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many and what proportion of the staff employed by his Department are apprentices.","answeringBodyId":27,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Transport","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4460,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2018-03-08T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The Department (including Central Department and Executive Agencies) currently employs 230 apprentices which equates to 1.58% of the workforce.</p><p> </p><p>This is based on apprenticeship data and Departmental headcount at end of February 2018. These figures are subject to constant change due to workforce movement and apprenticeship completion.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has a number of apprenticeship starts in progress which will increase the numbers of apprentices once they have been signed up by learning providers, but they are not yet registered as apprentices.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Department for Transport: Apprentices","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/855658","method":"GET"}]}