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Department for Transport: Equality

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

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
6 Jan 2025
Answer
10 Jan 2025 · 23 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, 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. 10 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    Seven officials have been hired by the Department at AO and EO grades via the Civil Service ‘Going Forward into Employment’ schemes in the last financial year.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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