Question follow-through · 2234

Department for Work and Pensions: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse was of staff diversity networks in her Department in each of the last five years.

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 30 Jul 2024
Target answer date: 2 Sept 2024
Answer: 4 Sept 2024 · 36 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

30 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the cost to the public purse was of staff diversity networks in her Department in each of the last five years.
2 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Sept 2024
Answer published
Total annual costs for EDI activities1 April 2023 - 31 29 February 20242022/ 2023 1 April 2021 - 31 March 20221 April 2020 - 31 March 20211 April 2019 – March 2020Departmental staff networks0£2675000 Cross-departmental staff networks0£29,...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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