PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Railways: North of England (13 July 2015)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will estimate the number of apprenticeships that would have been created in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017, (d) 2018 and (e) 2019 if the planned Manchester to Leeds electrification had gone ahead.

Asked by:
Lucy Powell (Labour)

Answer

Network Rail are not able to provide those estimates, as the scheme was at an early stage of development. However, Network Rail are currently recruiting 200 apprentices nationally in 2015.


Answered by:
Andrew Jones (Conservative)
16 July 2015

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