Question follow-through · 49388
Civil Service: Unpaid Work
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether white British people can apply to the Civil Service Summer Diversity Internship Programme.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 30 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 May 2025
- Answer
- 12 May 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether white British people can apply to the Civil Service Summer Diversity Internship Programme.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 May 2025
Answer published
The Fast Stream Summer Diversity Internship Programme was replaced by the Summer Internship Programme in 2023. The Summer Internship Programme is open to any penultimate and final year undergraduates who have the right to work in the UK Civil Service.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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