Question follow-through · 85181

Equality and Human Rights Commission and Office for Equality and Opportunity: Unpaid Work

To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether there are restrictions on internship applications to the (a) Office for Equality and Opportunity and (b) Equality and Human Rights Commission in (i) 2025 and (ii) 2026.

answeredWomen and Equalities

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Answering body
Women and Equalities
Tabled
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
29 Oct 2025
Answer
5 Nov 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 27 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, whether there are restrictions on internship applications to the (a) Office for Equality and Opportunity and (b) Equality and Human Rights Commission in (i) 2025 and (ii) 2026.

  2. 29 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    As the Office for Equality and Opportunity is part of the Cabinet Office, we follow Cabinet Office recruitment policies, including recruitment of interns. There is not a single universal rule for Cabinet Office internships as eligibility and restrictions ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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