Question follow-through · 40629
Department for Education: Equality
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what diversity, equality and inclusion targets her Department has for staff recruitment.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 1 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what diversity, equality and inclusion targets her Department has for staff recruitment.
26 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Apr 2025
Answer published
The department has diversity, equality and inclusion targets for Senior Civil Servants from ethnic minority backgrounds (13%) and staff with a disability (12%) only.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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