Question follow-through · 117667
Home Office: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any civil servants hired by her Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 4 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 25 Mar 2026 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any civil servants hired by her Department were recruited over another person on the basis of a protected characteristic in each of the last three years.
9 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Mar 2026
Answer published
Civil Service recruitment is governed by the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act (CRaGA) 2010, which requires that all appointments to the Civil Service are made on merit on the basis of fair and open competition.The Home Office does not recruit cand...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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