Question follow-through · 21136
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many and what proportion of officials in his Department were hired via positive action schemes in the last financial year.
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- 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
18 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, how many and what proportion of officials in his Department were hired via positive action schemes in the last financial year.
6 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 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...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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