Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to contract reference CCHR21A13 Lots 1 and 2 tendered by his Department in 2021, what statistics have been used to represent the baseline of HM Treasury’s graduate recruitment in terms of (a) ethnic and (b) socioeconomic diversity, against which to measure the contractor’s performance.

The baseline used to measure the contractor’s performance was our diversity and socioeconomic diversity statistics from the previous campaign where an improvement was sought;