Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what steps his Department has taken to support the embedding of diversity and inclusion in single departmental plans.

Single Departmental Plans set out a department’s objectives, how it will use its resources to achieve them and how its performance should be measured. This includes their policies to promote diversity and inclusion in wider society, as well as what they are doing within their own organisation.

Departments are expected to set out in their Single Departmental Plans how they intend to increase diversity and inclusion, in support of the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and the Civil Service’s ambition is to become the UK’s most inclusive employer. From April 2018, the Civil Service will publish a data dashboard detailing progress on diversity and inclusion. Departments also publish, at least every four years, their equality objectives (which public sector organisations must publish under Public Sector Equality Duty within the Equality Act 2010), These can be found on GOV.UK.