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Department for Transport: Apprentices

Asked by John CooperConservativeDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 31 March 2026UIN 122946

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many apprentices her Department recruited in 2025, compared to i) 2022 ii) 2023 and iii) 2024.

Answered by Simon Lightwood

The Department for Transport (central), excluding its executive agencies, recruited the following number of external apprentices:

  • 2025: 3
  • 2024: 8
  • 2023: Data cannot be provided. Our recruitment system (Oleeo VX) retains only two years of data in line with our recruitment retention policy; therefore, we cannot supply accurate figures for 2023.
  • 2022: Data cannot be provided for the same reason.

The figures reflect candidates at the ‘ready to hire’ stage, having completed pre‑employment checks and accepted formal offers via the Civil Service recruitment portal.


Source of data: These figures are sourced directly from the Department for Transport’s recruitment platform, Oleeo VX, which feeds applicant information into the Civil Service Jobs system.

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