Question follow-through · 22360

Intelligence Services: Unpaid Work

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether any internship programmes at (a) MI5, (b) M16 and (c) GCHQ were open to people from white British backgrounds.

answeredCabinet Office

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Answering body: Cabinet Office
Tabled: 7 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 9 Jan 2025
Answer: 14 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

7 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether any internship programmes at (a) MI5, (b) M16 and (c) GCHQ were open to people from white British backgrounds.
9 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jan 2025
Answer published
Yes. In recent years, UKIC has run a number of internships and placement schemes. They are designed to provide insight about what it is like to work in UKIC to individuals who have particular skills and expertise, want to work in a particular area and/or ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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