Department of Health and Social Care: Apprentices
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many apprentices the department recruited in 2025, compared with the figures for i. 2022, ii. 2023 and iii. 2024.
Answered by Karin Smyth
The majority of apprenticeships in the Department are held by existing employees who started an apprenticeship after they had joined the Department.
The following figures refer only to people who were recruited specifically to a role as an apprentice in each year:
- zero in 2025;
- seven in 2024;
- zero in 2023; and
- zero in 2022.
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