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Home Office: Equality

Asked by Neil O'BrienConservativeHome OfficeTabled Answered 11 November 2025UIN 85866

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 12 March 2024 to Question 17707 on Home Office: Equality, how many and what proportion of people work in her Department's equality, diversity and well-being team.

Answered by Sarah Jones

There are 34 members of staff (31.56 FTE) working in the central Equality, Diversity and Wellbeing Team based on headcount, this represents 0.07% of the total staff (paid Civil Servants) working for the Home Office. The small increase compared to the answer of 12 March 2024 reflects a combination of factors including

  1. Consolidation of standalone EDI roles within business areas into the central HR EDW Team following the publication of the Civil Service EDI Expenditure Guidance: Civil Service Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Expenditure Guidance - GOV.UK
  2. Team members returning to the team who were previously on secondments or temporary roles outside of the team.

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