Question follow-through · 54408
Recruitment: Equality
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what her Department's policy is on the Rooney Rule when drawing up shortlists for employing staff.
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- Answering body
- Women and Equalities
- Tabled
- 22 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 6 Jun 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, what her Department's policy is on the Rooney Rule when drawing up shortlists for employing staff.
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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6 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Office for Equality and Opportunity (OEO) is aware of what has come to be known as the Rooney Rule, but this is a US initiative and we have not adopted a policy on it. As both employer and custodian of the policy as set out in the Equality Act 2010 (T...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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