Question follow-through · 85866

Home Office: Equality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 12 March 2024 to Question 17707 on Home Office: Equality, how many and what proportion of people work in her Department's equality, diversity and well-being team.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 28 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 30 Oct 2025
Answer: 11 Nov 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

28 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 12 March 2024 to Question 17707 on Home Office: Equality, how many and what proportion of people work in her Department's equality, diversity and well-being team.
30 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Nov 2025
Answer published
There are 34 members of staff (31.56 FTE) working in the central Equality, Diversity and Wellbeing Team based on headcount, this represents 0.07% of the total staff (paid Civil Servants) working for the Home Office. The small increase compared to the answ...

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