Question follow-through · 21144
Northern Ireland Office: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, how many and what proportion of officials in his Department were hired via positive action schemes in the last financial year.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Northern Ireland Office
- Tabled
- 18 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jan 2025 · 22 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 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.
9 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Northern Ireland Office works within the Civil Service Recruitment Principles, as regulated by the Civil Service Commission, to recruit using a fair and open process and appoint on merit.The Department will only limit a campaign to a specific group as...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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