Question follow-through · 38902
Department for Education: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether any procurement contracts awarded by her Department have included mandatory commitments to equality, diversity, and inclusion training since 5 July 2024.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 17 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 25 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether any procurement contracts awarded by her Department have included mandatory commitments to equality, diversity, and inclusion training since 5 July 2024.
19 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Mar 2025
Answer published
In accordance with government commercial policy, the department uses centrally maintained frameworks provided by Crown Commercial Service and otherwise uses the suite of standard contracts maintained by Cabinet Office, for the majority of contracts. These...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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