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Civil Servants: Equality

Asked by Charlie DewhirstConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 3 April 2025UIN 41646

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what guidance has been issued to civil servants on how Diversity and Inclusion considerations should be embedded in all decision-making and delivery.

Answered by Georgia Gould

The Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy provides a framework for departments about how Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) should be embedded in the Civil Service.

The EDI Expenditure Guidance and the Guidance on Diversity and Inclusion and Impartiality for Civil Servants also provide guidance on specific aspects of EDI. None of this guidance has changed since the General Election.

Departmental EDI guidance for individual civil servants will be held in departments.

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