Question follow-through · 21146

Wales Office: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, 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
Wales Office
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

  1. 18 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, 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. 7 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...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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