Question follow-through · 16597

Government Departments: Equality

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason his Department renamed the Cross-Government Women’s Network as the Cross-Government Gender Network.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 27 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 29 Nov 2024
Answer: 5 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

27 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, for what reason his Department renamed the Cross-Government Women’s Network as the Cross-Government Gender Network.
29 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Dec 2024
Answer published
The network has been operating under this name since it was changed in July 2020, under the previous administration. The decision was made by the Cross-Government network itself, not by the Cabinet Office.

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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