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MI6: Unpaid Work

Commons · Question 69074 · Tabled 18 Jul 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 25 Jul 2025

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Asked by Nick Timothy

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Secret Intelligence Service’s diversity and inclusion policies on the recruitment of White Britons to its Summer In

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Answered by Stephen Doughty, 25 Jul 2025

The intelligence agencies, as with any arm to the Civil Service, must take any decisions seeking to improve the diversity of their workforce in-line with UK law and in adherence with the relevant measures of the Equalities Act 2010. These measures permit ...