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Department for Education: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of officials in her Department were hired via positive action schemes in the last financial year.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
6 Jan 2025
Answer
7 Jan 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of officials in her Department were hired via positive action schemes in the last financial year.

  2. 6 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    All Civil Service departments work within the Recruitment Principles, as regulated by the Civil Service Commission, to recruit using a fair and open process and appoint on merit.Departments will only limit a campaign to a specific group as a form of posit...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

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Children: Protection

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Pupils: Offences against Children

16 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what protocols are in place for schools to report suspected grooming gang activities involving students.

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Offences against Children: Victims

16 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how data on suspected victims of grooming gangs in schools is (a) collected and (b) shared with (i) law enforcement and (ii) child protection services.

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Overseas Students

29 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a cap on the number of international students.

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Overseas Students: Fees and Charges

30 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of a study of the impact of the dependency of universities on international students on the level of fees paid by such students.

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Department for Education: Employers' Contributions

30 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the cost to her Department of the proposed increase in employer National Insurance contributions for financial year 2025-26.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Department for Education: Equality

5 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish the total cost to the public purse for the provision of diversity, equality and inclusion courses for staff in her Department in 2024.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Schools: Publications

7 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure parents have (a) access to upcoming educational materials from outside providers and (b) a mechanism to oppose the use of materials they do not want their children to be expos

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Schools: Publications

7 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure parents have (a) access to upcoming internally-prepared educational materials and (b) a mechanism to oppose the use of internally-prepared materials they do not want their chi

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Children: English Language

13 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number of children who do not speak English as a first language.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Students: Loans

21 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish a breakdown of student loan recipients by nationality in each of the last five years.