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Scotland Office: Recruitment

Commons · Question 81980 · Tabled 14 Oct 2025 · Scotland Office · Official record

Answered 22 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Lee Anderson

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether their Department has run any (a) recruitment and (b) internship schemes aimed to increase the number of people from underrepresented groups in the workforce in the last year.

Answer

Answered by Kirsty McNeill, 22 Oct 2025

All staff that join the Scotland Office, do so on an assignment, loan or secondment from other Government bodies, principally the Ministry of Justice and the Scottish Government, who remain the employers. As such, the Scotland Office actively participates...