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.
About this written question
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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
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.
29 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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