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Employment: Equality

Asked by Liz JarvisLiberal DemocratDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 20 October 2025UIN 78908

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to promote workplace diversity and inclusion.

Answered by Kate Dearden

DBT’s Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Framework - Embracing Fairness for All (2024-28) is aligned to the cross-Civil Service strategy and includes specific actions such as training to build inclusive line management capability. The framework sets out our approach to D&I, aiming to enhance opportunity, fairness and belonging for all our people, in all our locations by using data to ensure it is evidence led. We work with our Diversity and Inclusion Networks to collaborate and engage on D&I activity.

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