Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many veterans applied to her Department, including border force, using the civil service great place to work scheme over the nine month pilot; and how many of those applicants (a) received an interview, (b) were offered a job and (c) went on to accept a role and begin work.

During the pilot of the Great Place to Work for Veterans scheme the department received 685 applications from veterans, of which 317 were offered an interview, 55 offered a job. Data on how many veterans accepted and started work is not available.

The pilot demonstrated that the initiative was successful in providing greater opportunities to veterans to pursue a career in the Civil Service and will now be rolled out across all Departments. This is one of a number of schemes to support veterans into public sector employment, including specific plans to get more veterans into teaching, the prison service and uniformed services.