Written statement made by Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative) on Tuesday, 23 July 2019 in the House of Commons, on behalf of the Department for Education.

Correction

Information supplied by the HR Capability and Business Partnering Division of the Department for Education has been identified as containing incorrect facts in the response provided to two Parliamentary Questions from the Honourable Member for Ashton-under-Lyne concerning the number and proportion of staff employed in each group of the Department that are apprentices (PQ226124).

In response to PQ226124, the correct figures for the end of February 2019 are that the Department for Education employed 251 apprentices. These can be broken down as follows:

Area	No of apprentices	No of employees per area	Proportion that are apprentices
Early Years and School Group	40	1901	2%
Education and Skills Funding Agency	77	1543	5%
Government Equalities Office	0	103	0%
Higher and Further Education	9	501	2%
Operations Group	110	1740	6%
Social Care, Mobility and Equalities	15	677	2%
Legal Advisors Office	0	14	0%
	251	6479	4%

The Government Equalities Office is captured in Department for Education data because they were still employees of the Department for Education at the end of February. Legal Advisers Office remain departmental employees.

Following the identification of this issue, we have completed an audit of our database. A rigorous new process has been put in place to ensure the robustness of our data.

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Type: Written statement
Reference: HCWS1801
Session: 2017-19
Procedure: Ministerial corrections
Related items: Department for Education: Apprentices
Monday, 4 March 2019
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects: Apprentices Department for Education
Contains statistics: Yes
Link: View this Written statement on www.parliament.uk

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