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Summer Internship Programme

Asked by Mike WoodConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 7 September 2026UIN 20833

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the Answer of 5 February 2026 to Question HL13977, on Summer Internship Programme, whether any applicants to the 2026 summer internship scheme have been (a) rejected and (b) disciplined for misrepresenting their working class status.

Answered by Cabinet Office

No interns have been disciplined or rejected for misrepresenting themselves in the application process.

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