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Department for Business and Trade: Equality

Asked by Andrew GriffithConservativeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 8 January 2026UIN 102898

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what evaluation he has made of the effectiveness of reverse mentoring programmes in his department.

Answered by Kate Dearden

DBT and its staff networks support a range of learning and development opportunities including a mentoring / reverse mentoring offer which is taken up on a voluntary basis. Feedback is encouraged from matched mentor/mentee pairs. Due to small numbers taking up reverse mentoring, there is no robust evaluation of effectiveness.

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