Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Unpaid Work

(asked on 28th August 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, further to the answer of 8 July 2026 to Question 14349 on Civil Service: Temporary Employment, if she will list each of the internship schemes that have been made available in the last 12 months through the department, other than the Fast Stream Summer Internship Programme.


Answered by
Emma Hardy Portrait
Emma Hardy
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 29th October 2026

Over the last 12 months, the department has hosted interns on the following internship schemes:

  • the Cabinet Office-led Summer Internship Programme;
  • the Summer Student Scheme organised by the Government Economics Service;
  • Sandwich Student Placement Schemes organised by the Government Social Research Service and the Government Statistical Service.
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