Question follow-through · 20911
Unpaid Work: Discrimination
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will take steps to ensure that employers offering internship programmes do not discriminate against applicants based on (a) sex, (b) ethnicity and (c) sexual orientation.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Women and Equalities
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 19 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 6 Jan 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will take steps to ensure that employers offering internship programmes do not discriminate against applicants based on (a) sex, (b) ethnicity and (c) sexual orientation.
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Jan 2025
Answer published
Part 5 of the Equality Act 2010 provides protection against direct and indirect discrimination in employment and makes it unlawful for an employer or a recruitment agency to discriminate against an employee or someone applying for employment because of a ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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