Food Standards Agency: Apprentices
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Food Standards Agency has offered apprenticeships since 2010.
Answered by Ashley Dalton
The Civil Service is committed to using apprenticeships to break down barriers to opportunity, support skills development, and deliver more effective public services.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) uses apprenticeships to develop the skills of existing staff, and also fills some vacancies with apprentices. Commonly used apprenticeship frameworks in the organisation are Data and Digital, and Economics.
While data is not available prior to 2018, the following table shows the number of apprenticeship starts in the FSA per year, from 2018 to 2025 to date:
Year | Number of apprenticeship starts |
2018 | 5 |
2019 | 1 |
2020 | 3 |
2021 | 2 |
2022 | 6 |
2023 | 10 |
2024 | 5 |
2025 | 1 |
Total | 33 |
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