Question follow-through · 5182
Department for Education: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many positions in her Department included (a) diversity, (b) inclusion, (c) equity and (d) equality in their job title in each of the last five years; and what the total cost of the salaries of each such jo
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 10 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 18 Sept 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Education and skills
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Recorded timeline
10 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many positions in her Department included (a) diversity, (b) inclusion, (c) equity and (d) equality in their job title in each of the last five years; and what the total cost of the salaries of each such jo
12 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Sept 2024
Answer published
The department does not routinely collate information on specific words and collating this information would come at a disproportionate cost. Information on spending and staffing can be found in the department’s annual report and accounts.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Students: Freedom of Expression
15 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to protect free speech for students in higher education.
Pupils: English Language
29 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children in school in each constituency do not have English as their first language.
Students: Loans
29 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the value was of student loans that were written off in each of the last five years; and what this was as a proportion of all outstanding student loans.
Pupils: Attendance
30 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of allowing parents to take their children out of school during term time for up to five days per year.
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31 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many apprentices there were in her Department in each of the last five years.
Class Sizes
6 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data his Department holds on the average class size at (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) Great Yarmouth constituency and (ii) England in each of the last twenty years.
Students: Loans
8 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 6 November 2024 to Question 11711 on Students: Loans, for what reason there was an increase in the amount of debt written off between 2022-23 and 2023-24.
Schools: Coronavirus
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Children in Care: Migrants
18 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in the care system are from non-UK citizenship families; and what the total cost to the public purse is of their care.
Private Education: VAT
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Pupils: Attendance
21 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total amount of fines collected for taking children out of school during term time was in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority.