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Treasury: Equality

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

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Answering body: Treasury
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

18 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of officials in her 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.
7 Jan 2025
Answer published
There have been no job opportunities restricted to certain groups through positive action schemes based around race, sex or other characteristics in the last financial year. HM Treasury works within the Civil Service Recruitment Principles, as regulated b...

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