Question follow-through · 21050
Civil Servants: Recruitment
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the answer of 18 June 2026 to Question 9022 on Education: Equality, whether the socio-economic duty will apply to policies and decisions on Civil Service recruitment.
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- Answering body
- Women and Equalities
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 23 Sept 2026 · 26 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, pursuant to the answer of 18 June 2026 to Question 9022 on Education: Equality, whether the socio-economic duty will apply to policies and decisions on Civil Service recruitment.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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23 Sept 2026
Answer published
A full list of public bodies subject to the SED will be published upon commencement. The Socio-Economic Duty (SED) will embed consideration of socio-economic disadvantage into public sector decision-making. It will require specified public authorities to ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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