Question follow-through · 20299
Civil Servants: Recruitment
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of civil service job opportunities restricted applications through positive action schemes based on (a) race and (b) sex or gender in the last financial year.
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2025 · 31 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many and what proportion of civil service job opportunities restricted applications through positive action schemes based on (a) race and (b) sex or gender in the last financial year.
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2025
Answer published
Cabinet Office recruitment policy and practice is conducted in accordance with UK law, including the Equality Act 2010, as well as the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles and the Civil Service Nationality rules (available on GOV.UK). Non-Min...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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