Department for Education: Unpaid Work

(asked on 28th August 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether any internship schemes managed by (a) her Department and (b) each of its Arm’s Length Bodies are restricted to applicants on the basis of (i) ethnicity, (ii) social class and (iii) both.


Answered by
Paul Waugh Portrait
Paul Waugh
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)
This question was answered on 8th September 2026

The department and its Arm’s Length Bodies do not manage any internship schemes that are restricted to applicants on the basis of ethnicity, social class, or both.

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