- 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 hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Angela Rayner), concerning the number and proportion of staff employed in each group of the Department that are apprentices.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.[HCWS1801]