Question follow-through · 21138

Home Office: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 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: Home Office
Tabled: 18 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 6 Jan 2025
Answer: 9 Jan 2025 · 22 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

18 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 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.
9 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.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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